American as Apple Pie: An Autobiography, Chow Rodney H.

Автор: Zweig Stefan
Название: The World of Yesterday
ISBN: 0803226616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803226616
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By the author who inspired Wes Anderson s film, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, "The World of Yesterday" recalls the golden age of literary Vienna its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall.

Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

This new translation by award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig s writing in arguably his most revealing work."

Автор: Lauren Mackay
Название: Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn
ISBN: 1350147052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350147058
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne’s life—her father Thomas and brother George— are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII’s turbulent reign. Well before Anne’s coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry’s most skilled and experienced ambassadors, and George was a talented young courtier on the rise. But Anne's downfall was to have a devastating effect on her family – ultimately costing her and her brother their lives. A family whose success and prestige had been shaped over generations was destroyed in a violent and brutal episode as the king sought a new wife and a male heir. In this first biography devoted to the Boleyn men, Lauren Mackay takes us beyond the stereotypes of Thomas and George to present a story that has almost been lost to history. This book follows the Boleyn men as they negotiated their way through the ruthless game of politics among the wolves of the court, and establishes their place in Tudor history.

Автор: Johnson James William
Название: A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
ISBN: 1580463363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580463362
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.

Автор: Frances B. Singh
Название: Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming
ISBN: 1580469558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580469555
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Uncovers the life of Jane Cumming, who scandalized her contemporaries with tales of sexual deviancy but also defied cultural norms, standing up to male authority figures and showing resilience.

Название: Tattered Banners: An Autobiography
ISBN: 1589881257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781589881259
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Remembering life under the Romanovs

"With his eye for detail, his taste for anecdote, and his sheer delight in the process of living, Rodzianko has created a delightful, if often sad, work."--Gary Saul Morson, from his new foreword for this first American edition

"Capacious, powerful, and subtle--a forgotten work with real claims to historic interest and aesthetic value . . . It is Paradise Lost as told by Dostoevsky."--Washington Independent Review of Books

Born into Russian aristocracy at the end of the 19th Century, Paul Rodzianko led a life rich in love, challenged by war, and inspired by great jumping horses. With humor and infectious joy, he recounts the adventures of his charmed childhood--playing with his cousins at the Winter Palace, riding horses at his family's many country estates, and, most spectacularly, serving as a page in the court of Tsar Nicolas II.

Then, on August 1, 1914, Russia and Germany declare war on each other, and, Rodzianko writes, "The hurricane descended and swept our world away." Serving in the Chevalier Guards, he fights first against the Germans and then, after the Revolution, against the Reds in Siberia. He writes movingly about WWI and the Russian Civil War: the initial excitement about going to war and the grim realities, the frustrating shortages of munitions and the failures of the railroads, the shocking execution of the Romanovs, and the brutal deaths of millions of young men.

Tattered Banners is an evocative and haunting account of a time and people that have continued to intrigue us for more than a century.

Автор: Etkind Alexander
Название: Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt
ISBN: 0822965038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965039
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Описание: Based on Bullitt`s unpublished papers and diplomatic documents from the Russian archives, this new biography presents Bullitt as a truly cosmopolitan American, one of the first politicians of the global era.

Автор: Wildenberg Thomas
Название: All the Factors of Victory: Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Airpower
ISBN: 168247299X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682472996
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Описание: During the 1920s and 1930s Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves (1878-1948) emerged as the most important flag officer in American naval aviation. All the Factors of Victory is the first full-length biography of this eminent naval officer, whose story makes an important contribution to our understanding of carrier warfare.

Автор: Christopher J. Leahy
Название: President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
ISBN: 0807172545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807172544
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Описание: Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation's least effective heads of state. In President without a Party- the first full?­-scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades- Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the United States. Born in the Virginia Tidewater into an elite family sympathetic to the ideals of the American Revolution, Tyler, like his father, worked as an attorney before entering politics. Leahy uses a wealth of primary source materials to chart Tyler's early political path, from his election to the Virginia legislature in 1811, through his stints as a congressman and senator, to his vice?­-presidential nomination on the Whig ticket for the campaign of 1840. When William Henry Harrison died unexpectedly a mere month after assuming the presidency, Tyler became the first vice president to become president because of the death of the incumbent. Leahy traces Tyler's ascent to the highest office in the land and unpacks the fraught dynamics between Tyler and his fellow Whigs, who ultimately banished the beleaguered president from their ranks and stymied his election bid three years later. Leahy also examines the president's personal life, especially his relationships with his wives and children. In the end, Leahy suggests, politics fulfilled Tyler the most, often to the detriment of his family. Such was true even after his presidency, when Virginians elected him to the Confederate Congress in 1861, and northerners and Unionists branded him a ""traitor president."" The most complete accounting of Tyler's life and career, Leahy's biography makes an original contribution to the fields of politics, family life, and slavery in the antebellum South. Moving beyond the standard, often shortsighted studies that describe Tyler as simply a defender of the Old South's dominant ideology of states' rights and strict construction of the Constitution, Leahy offers a nuanced portrayal of a president who favored a middle-?­of-?­the?­-road, bipartisan approach to the nation's problems. This strategy did not make Tyler popular with either the Whigs or the opposition Democrats while he was in office, or with historians and biographers ever since. Moreover, his most significant achievement as president- the annexation of Texas- exacerbated sectional tensions and put the United States on the road to civil war.

Автор: Zeilig Leo
Название: Frantz Fanon
ISBN: 184885725X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848857254
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: An essential perspective on Fanon`s work and the context within which he wrote.

Автор: Warnecke Grace Kennan
Название: Daughter of the Cold War: A Memoir
ISBN: 0822965895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965893
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Описание: Grace Kennan Warnecke`s memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. This compelling and evocative memoir allows readers to follow Grace`s amazing path through life - a whirlwind journey of survival, risk, and self-discovery through a kaleidoscope of many countries, historic events, and fascinating people.

Автор: Hayward, Joel S.
Название: For god and glory
ISBN: 161251779X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612517797
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Описание: Taking an original thematic approach to the study of Horatio Lord Nelson, Joel Hayward analyses the admiral`s unique war-fighting style, doctrine, tactics and operational art, his command and leadership abilities, and his attitudes and beliefs. Hayward reveals how these elements combined to form the man whose ethos spread through his entire force.

Автор: Robbins Richard G.
Название: Overtaken by the Night: One Russian`s Journey Through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror
ISBN: 0822966174 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822966173
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Описание: Highly readable, Overtaken by the Night captivates on many levels. It is a gripping biography of a man of many faces, a behind-the-curtain look at the inner workings of Russian politics at its highest levels, and also an engrossing account of ordinary Russians engulfed by swiftly moving political and social currents.