Biography & Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt Abroad: Nature, Empire, and the Journey of an American President

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Report copyright infringementby J. Lee Thompson (Author)In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has never been given its due place. A tale of daring adventure, international celebrity, a friendship lost, and a political legacy transformed, Theodore Roosevelt Abroad is the first full account of this important time in history.Author BiographyJ. LEE THOMPSON is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor o...

Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs: Searching for the Perfect Pint

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Shepard (Author) This information-packed guidebook introduces you to more than sixty breweries and brewpubs-from the Shipwrecked Brew Pub in Egg Harbor, to smaller craft breweries like Capital Brewery west of Madison, to the world-famous Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee. Robin Shepard includes descriptions and his personal ratings of some 600 local beers, plus a taster's chart you can use to record your own preferences. For each brewpub and brewery sit...

Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Lesh (Author)The legendary bass player tells the full, true story of his years with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead in this eye-opening memoir of life in the greatest improvisational band in American history. In a book "as graceful and sublime as a box of rain" (New York Times Book Review), the beloved bassist tells the stories behind the songs, tours, and jams in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip from the 1960s to the death of Jerry Garcia in 19...

Midnight Riders: The Story of the Allman Brothers Band - Paperback

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by Scott Freeman (Author)In this riveting tale of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, Freeman brings to life the turbulent career of the original Southern rock band. This history includes the band's blues roots, their wild early days on the road and their recent resurgence.Back JacketBased on extensive interviews with band members and their intimates plus thousands of court documents, Midnight Riders captures for the first time one of the most riveting stories in American rock history. It tells of th...

Bob Marley: The Complete Annotated Bibliography - Paperback

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by Joe Jurgensen (Author)A complete annotated bibliography that gives details and cover photos to over 400 editions of books about Bob Marley and that feature Bob Marley on the cover. This is a tremendous resource that any Bob Marley collector or casual Marley or reggae fan can enjoy. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.38 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 19, 2010

The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders - Paperback

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by Masayo Duus (Author), Peter Duus (Translator)Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures. His personal struggles--as well as his many personal triumphs--are vividly chronicled in The Life of Isamu Noguch...

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Report copyright infringementby Soren Filipski (Translator), Franz Xaver Kappus (Introduction by), Rainer Maria Rilke (Author)When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing towards maturity, and how the impulse to artistic creation can and s...

The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard (Deluxe Edition with Color Illustrations): Edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Stoddard - Paperback

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by Robert A. Stoddard (Editor)The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard is part biography, and part autobiography. It is the story of the life and times of Major Amos Stoddard, the first civil commandant and governor of Upper Louisiana. Amos Stoddard tragically died at the siege of Fort Meigs (Ohio) during the War of 1812. His biography is provided as an introduction by the editor. This introduction provides the most complete and comprehensive account of the life of Major Amos Stodd...

Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis L. Gould (Author)Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to her husband. Lewis Gould's path-breaking study, however, presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edi...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Welch (Author)(Omnibus Press). Wrestler turned rock manager, the late Peter Grant made his name as the manager of Led Zeppelin, helping to turn them into rock's biggest attraction by the mid Seventies. The book reveals the facts about his suspended prison sentence, his dispute with the group over unpaid royalties, his retiring from the music industry, and his rumoured heroin addiction. Written with the full co-operation of Grant's family and friends, the ...

Chicana Tributes: Activist Women of the Civil Rights Movement - Stories for the New Generation

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Sanchez (Editor), Sonia Lopez (Editor)This book documents the experiences of sixty-one women who flourished in the ferment of the civil/ethnic/women's rights movements of the late twentieth century and beyond. While each life is unique, collectively they demonstrate the benefits gained when a community and a society unleashes and fosters the potential of women who create, organize, and lead. Conversely, an undetermined degree of loss may accrue to societie...

No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier

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Report copyright infringementby Hollis D. Stabler (Author), Victoria Smith (Editor)As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler's story--coming of age on the American pla...

Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space

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Report copyright infringementby Grace George Corrigan (Author)Most people remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, just as they remember how they felt when humans first set foot on the moon. Elements of both reactions are present in the story of Christa McAuliffe, the energetic young schoolteacher chosen to be the first civilian to go into space--and who died with her astronaut companions in the Challenger explosion of January 28, 1986. In this straightforward memoir, M...

The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection

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Report copyright infringementby Mari Sandoz (Author), Linda M. Hasselstrom (Introduction by)Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records from the East, paying for them with an inheritance and ignoring debts, to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife. But the entire family soon entered into the holiday spirit as neighbors arrived to feast and...

Father of Route 66: The Story of Cy Avery

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Croce Kelly (Author)If it weren't for Cy Avery's dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build. In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for "good roads" that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened. Avery was one...

Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place Volume 142

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Report copyright infringementby Angie Debo (Author)On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche (the son of the great Cochise), sixteen other warriors, fourteen women, and six children. It had taken a force of 5,000 regular army troops and a series of false promises to "capture" the band.Yet the surr...

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Report copyright infringementby Bobbie Malone (Author) For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children "see beyond the rim of their own world." In Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, historian and educator Bobbie Malone takes us into Lenski's own world to tell the story of how a girl from a small Ohio town became a beloved literary icon. Author and illustrator of the Newbery Awar...

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Report copyright infringementby Judy Nolte Temple (Author)The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado's wealthiest mining magnate and became the "Silver Queen of the West." Blessed with two daughters, Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized the world with their wealth and extravagance. But Bab...

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Report copyright infringementby Milton Meltzer (Author)Dorothea Lange's depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer documents her development as an artist and provides a moving portrayal of a life burdened with illness and the conflicting demands of family and profession.Author BiographyMilton Meltzer is the author of many books of history and biography, four of...

A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection

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Report copyright infringementby James B. Stockdale (Author)The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In this collection of essays he offers his thoughts on his imprisonment. Describing the horrors of his treatment as a prisoner of war, Stockdal...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth McCausland (Author)Marsden Hartley was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Art connoisseurs and students, who are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of Marsden Hartley in an understanding of modern at, will welcome this book. It contains a biographical and critica...

Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject

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Report copyright infringementby Kirsten Buick (Author)Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes. Throughout this richly illustrated study, Kirsten Pai Buick investigates how Lewis and her work were perceived, and their meanings manipulated, by others and the sculptor herself. She argues against the racialist art discourse that has long cast L...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Doyle (Editor)Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Yet even though Warhol became the star of post...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author), A. Grove Day (Editor)"I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect sense to you, join the thousands of Island lovers who have delighted in...

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by Samuel Hall Young (Author), Richard F. Fleck (Introduction by)Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians. In "Alaska Days With John Muir" he describes this 1879 meeting: "A hearty grip of the hand and we seemed to coalesce in a friendship which, to me at least, has been one of the very best things in a life full of blessings." This book...

Glenn Pray: The Untold Stories - Paperback

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by Glenn Pray (Author)"I have been listening to Glenn Pray stories for over forty years. This book hit the entertainment mark, it made me laugh and it made me cry...a thoroughly enjoyable read." Randy Ema, Duesenberg historian. In this amusing book, Glenn Pray tells the story of himself and his rise to fame. Claiming he "started out with nothing and has most of it left", he borrowed a twenty-dollar bill, and bought the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. Within months, his name was splashed acros...

Mein Kampf: Official Nazi English Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Adolf Hitler (Author)This is the Official Nazi English Translation of Mein Kampf. It was recently rediscovered after all copies were thought to have been destroyed. This is one of the rarest Mein Kampf editions ever made and it passed from hand to hand without the owners knowing what it truly was or the value for 65 years. Finally, in 2009, the full story has not only been revealed but the text is available for the world to read. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry wa...

Mein Kampf (James Murphy Nazi Authorized Translation)

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Report copyright infringementby Adolf Hitler (Author), James Murphy (Translator)This is the original English version of Mein Kampf translated by James Murphy under contract with the Nazi party. It was made before his altered British version was released and published in small numbers inside Nazi Germany. Mein Kampf covers a wide-scope that offers an interesting interpretation of politics, business, people, and foreign policy matters. To characterize it as simply a racist work is to oversimpli...

E.D. Nixon: The Unsung Father of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Escoffery (Illustrator), Michael Eaddy (Author)Before Dr. Martin Luther King, E.D. Nixon was the principal black leader in Montgomery, Alabama. He helped sparked the Civil Rights Movement and bailed imprisoned civil rights icon, Rosa Parks out of jail. Mr. Nixon's contributions in civil rights, voter registration, leadership, and social justice was paramount in the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advancing the civil rights movement. A true sto...

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Cope White (Author), Norman Lear (Foreword by)NOW A NETFLIX SERIES - BOOTSIn The Pink Marine, Greg Cope White's sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving memoir, he recounts how an insecure New Orleans weakling transforms into a Devil Dog Marine. A coming-of-age story set in the most unlikely place: boot camp.When Greg's straight best friend Dale tells him he's spending the summer at Marine Corps boot camp on Parris Island, all Greg hears is "summer" and "camp...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Anton Wilson (Author)The first book in the Cosmic Trigger trilogy reveals the enlightening secret of the Illuminati while presenting the daunting metaphor of Chapel Perilous where the unprepared can get lost in a spirited journey. Volume Two of the series presents the metaphor of the Bridge and the lessons of Bob's early life that brought him to the wisdom of the Model Agnostic's perspective. In Bob's typical wide-ranging narratives, we learn, among othe...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Anton Wilson (Author)The first volume of the Cosmic Trigger series describes in vivid elucidation the perils of a spiritual journey. Volume two of the series presents the author's "bridge" - how did Bob grow into his expanded perspective of Multiverse. In this third and final volume, Bob digs even deeper and uncovers the masks of reality and the reality of masks. Warning: this book may reveal more about what is "real" in reality than you might find comfo...