Historical Biography – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 10

Marshall C Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Bertil Lintner
Young Tigers

This compelling history examines Myanmar's complex political landscape through the life of Chao Tzang Yawnghwe (1939-2004), son of Sao Shwe Thaike, the first president of independent Burma and last Saohpa…

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Lea Ypi
Indignity

The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1…

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Jan Swafford
Johannes Brahms

A New York Times Notable Book"This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."--The Plain DealerJudicious, compassionate, and full of …

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Eden Collinsworth
The Improbable Victoria Woodhull

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman …

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Jeffrey Boutwell
Boutwell

During his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to "redeem America's promise" of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. F…

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Wesley Moody
Hero of Fort Sumter

"The first biography of a military officer famous then and now for his role on the Union side at Fort Sumter, who also played an overlooked role in mentoring future general William T. Sherman"--

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Alexandra M Nickliss
Phoebe Apperson Hearst

In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics , Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women. A financial manager, businesswoman,…

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Claire McCardell

Named one ofThe New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025T he riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of.Claire McCardell forever changed fas…

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Jonny Steinberg
Winnie and Nelson

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY AWARD WINNER • AN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • A WASHINGTON POST AND NEW YORKER 2023 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A deeply researched, …

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Lea Ypi
Indignity

The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1…

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Deborah Lutz
This Dark Night

Emily Brontë (1818-48) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Wuthering Heights …

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Nancy Goldstone
The Rebel Empresses

"When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugâenie of France became two of the most famous women on the planet. Young and beautiful--becoming c…

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Rachel Trethewey
Muv

The story of the "seventh Mitford woman," a long-overlooked figure in the Mitford canon---told in full for the first time.Everyone knows about the six flamboyant Mitford girls but in fact there …

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Claire McCardell

Named one ofThe New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025T he riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of.Claire McCardell forever changed fas…

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Kevin Jackson
Legion: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Lawrence of Arabia

There have been literally hundreds of books about T. E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia, but never a work quite like Legion.Legion tells the astonishing life story of an man who was far more th…

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Megan Hoyt,
Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero

This 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist by author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno brings to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved Italian cyclist and secret champion in …

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Rose Mary Wood
Chronicles of Cass County, Michigan

Along the Indiana border in Southwest Michigan lies Cass County, a place rich in historical significance.Nearly one thousand freedom seekers traveled through the area on their way to Canada. The first ren…

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Andrew Jamieson
On the Couch: Twenty Extraordinary Personalities, from Picasso to Putin

Psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson considers ten key principles of psychoanalysis and illuminates them through psychobiographies of twenty extraordinary people, including Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, C…

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Yvonne Clark-Rhines, Monica Clark-Robinson,
Teaching for Change

This powerful picture book biography spotlights Septima Poinsette Clark, the civil rights leader who taught Black adults how to combat Jim Crow-era voting regulations. Written by Septima's granddaughter, …

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