Stephen Birmingham 
Certain People 
America’s Black Elite

P.E. You either loved it or hated it, looked forward to it or dreaded it, but we”ve all been forced to do it. Sometimes a note could get you out of it, but the following week there you”d be again, …

First published in 1998, this book focuses on the once celebrated but now neglected musical journalism of Henry Forthergill Chorley. For nearly forty years he effectively used his acerbic pen an …

Franz Alexander was the first graduate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, the man who turned down Freud”s offer to enter into private practice in Vienna, and the man Freud told to go to America …

This book examines the life and political career of Albertino Mussato (1261–1329), a Paduan poet, historian and politician. Mussato was one of the first writers of the late medieval period to begin r …

From George Washington to George W. In the course of the 2008 presidential campaigns, Americans became involved in the political process at a level rarely seen in modern history. But even before the …

John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book. As he battles terminal cancer in a …

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 …

A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world”s most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition of the contents of Stephen H …

"Life of David W. Patten" is a biographical account written through Lycurgus A. Wilson, losing mild at the compelling and regularly unnoticed lifestyles of David W. Patten, a distinguished …

"Washington and His Colleagues" is a historical work authored by Henry Jones Ford. During the American Revolutionary War, the book dives into the life and leadership of George Washington …