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|  | America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
Description not available.A Filipino exposes the hardships his countrymen experienced as California migrant workers before World War II AUTHOR: Carlos Bulosan
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Mother Teresa by Glenna Hammer Moulthrop
Mouthrop interweaves her own story around 100 quotations on love from Mother Teresa. AUTHOR: Glenna Hammer Moulthrop
PUBLISHER: TowleHouse Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Grant's Secret Service by William B. Feis
The art of war is simple enough, said Ulysses S. Grant. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can and keep moving on. Much has been written on Grant and his pursuit of the latter two prescriptions; William B. Feis offers us the first scholarly examination of Grant's first principle, the often vexing question of just where his enemy was and what he was doing. In the western theater, Grant was successful despite limited intelligence resources; his victories there stemmed in part from his ability to analyze his opponents and anticipate their actions. In the absence of intelligence data, Grant's initiative, determination, and drive carried him to success. In the East, however, to overcome Lee's advantages of strategic and operational mobility coupled with his own initiative, Grant had to adapt and became more reliant on intelligence to provide information about Confederate movements and intentions. Feis makes the new and provocative argument that Grant's use of the Army of the Potomac's Bureau of Military Information played a significant role in Lee's defeat. Grant's Secret Service articulately rebuts accusations by Grant's detractors that his battlefield successes involved little more than the bludgeoning of an undermanned and outgunned opponent. AUTHOR: William B. Feis
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Frederick Douglass by Robert Sevra, William S. McFeely
Description not available.Probes beneath the public image of this important national leader to reveal a complex portrait of the man who exposed the brutal injustice of slavery and spoke loudly and clearly for the cause of freedom AUTHOR: Robert Sevra, William S. McFeely
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Every Man a King by Huey P. Long, T. Harry Williams
Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he began his political career by taking on, from the office of the Railroad Commission, the biggest corporations in the state, including the Standard Oil Company. He was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and proceeded to subjugate the powerful state political hierarchy after narrowly defeating an impeachment attempt. The only Southern popular leader who truly delivered on his promises, he increased the miles of paved roads and number of bridges in Louisiana tenfold and established free night schools and state hospitals, meeting the huge costs by taxing corporations and issuing bonds. Soon Long had become the absolute ruler of the state, in the process lifting Louisiana from near feudalism into the modern world almost overnight, and inspiring poor whites of the South to a vision of a better life. As Louisiana Senator and one of Roosevelt`s most vociferous critics, The Kingfish , as he called himself, gained a nationwide following, forcing Roosevelt to turn his New Deal significantly to the left. But before he could progress farther, he was assassinated in Baton Rouge in 1935. Long`s ultimate ambition, of course, was the presidency, and it was doubtless with this goal in mind that he wrote this spirited and fascinating account of his life, an autobiography every bit as daring and controversial as was The Kingfish himself. AUTHOR: Huey P. Long, T. Harry Williams
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Four Seasons in Five Senses by David M. Masumoto
Californian David Mas Masumoto is both a farmer and a writer, and here he celebrates in poetic prose the joys of the good fresh food he grows. AUTHOR: David M. Masumoto
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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