biography

A biography of the British statesman, author, and military strategist who was one of the world leaders of the twentieth century.

A biography of the patriot of the Revolution who had many trades, among them silver work, manufacture of copper, casting of bells, engraving, and dentistry.

Debra Johanyak, an American woman with dual citizenship, describes her experiences when the American Embassy in Tehran was taken over by militants in 1979.

A biography of Robyn Scott, focusing on the impact moving from New Zealand to rural Botswana when she was seven years old had on her life, and discusses her scientist mother and her flying doctor father, as well as her experiences while witnessing the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

A biography of Thomas Savage, one of the early colonists of Jamestown, Virginia, who was sent to live among the Native Americans in order to learn their language and become an interpreter.

Janisse Ray explains how spending her childhood in rural isolation grew into a passion to save the longleaf pine ecosystem in the South.

A biography of George Saunders, a cowboy who endured cattle drives, stampedes, and skirmishes with Indians on the Texas frontier during and after the Civil War.

Personal letters recount the experiences of Lilli Jahn, a young Jewish woman who was taken to the Breitenau labor camp in 1942.

The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man. Epilogue covers events in the field of civil rights since 1959.

Examines the contradictory life of Peter the Great who brought modernization to Russia while, at the same time, inflicting decades of war on his people.