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|  | Genius in Disguise
In a great paradox of American letters, the urbane and witty New Yorker was founded by a former tramp newspaperman from Colorado with a 10th grade e ducation. Yet Harold W. Ross revealed an irrepressible spirit, an insatiable curiosity and a bristling intellect--all the qualities that distinguished The New Yorker.
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Young Hickory by Hendrik Booraem
Description not available.Traces the early years of the seventh president of the United States, discussing the turbulent events that shaped the course of his life. AUTHOR: Hendrik Booraem
PUBLISHER: Taylor Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Lives of the Popes by Richard P. McBrien
Description not available.Arranged chronologically, a detailed look into the history of the papacy spans the centuries and includes vital information on the lives of each pontiff, major writings, controversies, and feats, both divine and immoral. Reprint. AUTHOR: Richard P. McBrien
PUBLISHER: HarperSanFrancisco
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Mammoth Book of Private Lives by Jon E. Lewis
Description not available.Includes more than three hundred private moments in the lives of emperors, scoundrels, celebrities, courtiers, paramours, presidents, and movie stars in this collection of personal writings and intimate thoughts from their diaries, letters, missives, and journals. Original. AUTHOR: Jon E. Lewis
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Presidents on the Net by Gary M. Garfield
Imagine the excitement and interest generated when kids meet their presidents face to face, learning about their lives and times, their unique qualities and characteristics, the major events of the day, accomplishments in office, and their places in history. Visit a major biographical homepage and two additional Internet sites for each president, then study important historical events with two complete lessons and three extension activities for each president. Great for novices and experienced Internet explorers alike, as well as home or school. (Includes only well-established presidential and related Internet sites affiliated with credible institutions.) AUTHOR: Gary M. Garfield
PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | A Brotherhood of Tyrants by D. Jablow Hershman, Julian Lieb
Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin were three tyrants, the effects of whose brutal regimes are still with us. Each attained absolute power, and misused it in a gargantuan fashion, leaving in his wake a trail of hatred, devastation, and death. This remarkable study, while it examines the private and public lives of these three megalomaniacal leaders, is neither history nor biography. Rather, it takes the reader into the terra incognita of relationships between the strange lives of Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin and the ferocious, bizarre political systems they established. In A Brotherhood of Tyrants, D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb uncover manic depression as a hidden cause of dictatorship, war, and mass killing. Comparing Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin, they describe a number of behavioral similarities supporting the contention that a specific psychiatric disorder - manic depression - can be one of the key factors in a political pathology such as tyranny. Combining familiar facts from history and psychiatry, Hershman and Lieb have created a new theory suggesting that power and madness are linked by a mental disorder so variable in its effects that it condemns some people to twilight existences in mental hospitals while it propels others to every imaginable success. Focusing on these three dictators of modern history, A Brotherhood of Tyrants argues that manic depression has always been, and continues to be, a critical factor in compelling some individuals to seek political power and to become tyrants. It powerfully demonstrates how this disorder is the source of many of the typical characteristics - including grandiosity and megalomania - of a tyrannical personality,and provides a manual for the identification of the psychotic tyrant. In an epilogue, Hershman and Lieb outline the clinical signs of manic depression as described in the classic studies of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926). The authors apply these clinical signs and sym AUTHOR: D. Jablow Hershman, Julian Lieb
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books, Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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