The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership, #8)
by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
In this classic portrait of LBJ, Joseph A. Califano reveals the giant at close hand. Califano captures his mentor's lively, irascible spirit as he puts us in the White House alongside LBJ during the trauma of the Vietnam War and the creation of the Great Society. A new afterword draws on the insights offered by tapes released by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library after the book's original publication to provide further perspective for the complex picture Califano has drawn.
Papers of John Adams (Adams Papers) (General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen)
by John Adams
On September 3, 1783, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the definitive Anglo-American peace treaty. Adams and his colleagues strived to establish a viable relationship between the new nation and its largest trading partner but were stymied by rising British anti-Americanism. Adams’ diplomatic efforts were also complicated by domestic turmoil. Americans, in a rehearsal for the later Federalist-Antifederalist conflict over the United States Constitution, were debating the proper r...
Following the worldwide success of her memoirs "The Downing Street Years" and "The Path to Power", this is a collection of all the significant speeches of Margaret Thatcher's career, from her maiden speech as the young MP for Finchley in 1959 to the headline-making Keith Joseph Memorial Address which she gave in January 1996. In between are the landmarks - the speech in Brighton on the morning after the IRA bomb, the Bruges Speech, the titanic resignation speech in the Commons - and the smaller...
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte (1892)
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Theodore Roosevelt, Senior, a Tribute; The Proceedings at a Meeting of the Union League Club, New Yo
by N y ) Union League Club (New York
In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago. The book also offers the author's inspiring personal story about identity and multiculturalism. Rare family photos add to the book's personal nature as does the intense recounting of domestic violence in the home of Barack Obama Sr.'s and his third wife, Ruth Baker, Mark's Jewi...
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the United States. with the Eulogy - Scholar's Choice Edition
by William H Seward
Eden (20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century)
by Peter Wilby
Anthony Eden was long Churchill's heir but only succeeded him in 1955. His period in office saw the end of Britain's tenure as a first-rank power in its own right.
