|
|
|
|  | Last Days of Glory by Tony Rennell
Description not available.A fascinating account recreates the 23 days in January of 1901 when Queen Victoria journeyed to Osborne House to meet her fate and succumb to the illness that had plagued her - a death that brought a dark pall upon the world and signified the end of an era. AUTHOR: Tony Rennell
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
|
 | Jefferson & the Indians by Anthony F. C. Wallace
Description not available.Another sliver of Jefferson's tortured, contradictory mind is explored in this compelling history of the origins of the nation's disastrous Indian policy, revealing an intellectual who was fascinated by native culture but who nevertheless planted the seeds for a national genocide of Indian people while serving as president. AUTHOR: Anthony F. C. Wallace
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
|
 | Off the Record by Robert H. Ferrell
This book contains the private papers of Harry S. Truman, in and out of the White House, beginning in 1945 and ending in November 1971, when only a few months of life remained and the retired president's days had become so constricted that he ran out of things to write about. The Truman diary is frank, rambunctious, full of life, but no less full of a sense of duty at least equal to that of HST's nineteenth-century predecessors. AUTHOR: Robert H. Ferrell
PUBLISHER: University of Missouri Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
|
 | Between Bites by James Villas
Winner of a James Beard Award, the elegant James Villas looks at food in America in this very personal book, which includes photographs, celebrity-chef encounters, recipes, and the author's own very unorthodox opinions about not just food but many aspects of American life. AUTHOR: James Villas
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
|
 | Kiss & Sell
Kiss and Sell is a riveting account of the intersecting worlds of music and commerce, as viewed from the perspective of a top executive with Kiss's business management from 1976 to 1988. It's an in-depth look at the convergence of hard rock, big business, and bigger egos, and a revealing story of how images are built and money is made and spent. This is an inside view of the lifestyles and excesses of rock stars, the pressures of staying on top, the influence of the entertainment industry's power brokers, and the glitz, glamour, and celebrity of stars such as Diana Ross, Lisa Hartman, and Cher. Now reunited and setting concert attendance records throughout the world, Kiss are once again on top. This is the story of their spectacular rise in the '70s, their plummeting popularity in the '80s, and their survival from a series of debacles and downturns to reclaim their title of the hottest band in the land in the '90s.
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
|
 | Harriet Tubman
Description not available.An introduction to the life and work of Harriet Tubman, who helped free slaves through the Underground Railroad and continued helping freed slaves after the Civil War.
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
|
|
|
