Henry Childs Merwin 
Thomas Jefferson 

First published in 1996. The emergence of Pakistan as an independent nation in 1947 was one of the major historical events of the twentieth century. There are few parallels in history where freedom h …

Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature, is now acknowledged internationally as one of the major writers of this century. His books, which have become best-sellers, appeal …

This book introduces students to African-American innovators and their contributions to art, entertainment, sports, politics, religion, business, and popular culture. While the achievements of su …

"Abraham Lincoln and the Union" is a masterpiece authored via Nathaniel W. Stephenson, a distinguished author regarded for his awesome capacity to intertwine history and nonfiction, …

Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex …

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the …

Aged just 23, and already set on a life of adventure, Roger Taylor signed up as an able seaman on the square-rigger Endeavour II, bound from Australia to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It was …

In 1928 two extraordinary Englishmen competed in an unprecedented event – a transcontinental road race across America that required them to run an average of 40 miles for 80 consecutive days. Despite …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ”She”d been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years – which were his final twenty-seven years. She”d lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all …

Just weeks after completing Enter the Dragon, his first vehicle for a worldwide audience, Bruce Lee – the self-proclaimed world”s fittest man – died mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. The film h …