Harold Holzer & Joshua Wolf Shenk 
In Lincoln’s Hand [EPUB ebook] 

Paul David Wellstone Jr., or ?Dave as he is known to his friends, fell into a zombie-like state of shock when he first got word that the eleven-seater plane carrying his parents and sister couldn t b …

‚‘Delicious.’ I licked my lips. The wine filled me with joy. A picture of a vineyard drenched in sunlight formed in my mind. Sean drew me rudely back to the lounge of our semi-d. “How can they be in …

We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it“s their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law“s sudde …

Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remember …

In the voluminous secret history of the 1930s, one episode that still puzzles researchers is the death in 1937 of one of Stalin“s key allies – his fellow Georgian, G.K. Ordzhonikidze. Whether he too …

man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to fi nd universal patterns in the lives of all men. …

A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017 His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father“s tragic death. …

In this, the first biography of Flaubert to be written for many years, Geoffrey Wall brilliantly recreates the life and times of a writer of immeasurable talent and influence – a writer who wrote to …