Biographies & Memoirs Books


Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham Best Price: $14.99 Cumming's book on Charles Dunham -- known to many by his most prominent alias, Sanford...	The Poet and the Sailor: The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg Best Price: $14.82 This book offers a lot of opportunities for learning. On the surface, it's the story of a...	Let Something Good Be Said: Speeches and Writings of Frances E. Willard Best Price: $14.00 I first found out about Frances Willard through a biography of Carrie Nation wherein she was...	Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution...	Lincoln's Legacy: Ethics and Politics Best Price: $27.00 I found my irritation level rising as I read this short collection of essays. I know that the...



Kaija Saariaho (Women Composers) Best Price: $38.00 This is absolutely a very good and profound introduction to Kaija Saariaho and her music. You...	Wartime Diary (Beauvoir Series) Best Price: $38.00 Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir?s Wartime Diary gives English...	Sing It Pretty: A Memoir (Music in American Life) Best Price: $64.97 A leader in the development of state and federal programs supporting traditional arts and folk...	Gandhi (Profiles (London, England).) Examines the life of the statesman who played a crucial role in India's struggle for...	Tears Before Bedtime Barbara Skeltons autobiography is a must for anyone interested in the generation of English...



Private View: Inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre	A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T.E. Utley Best Price: $129.00 An autobiography on T.E.Utley who was acknowledged as one of the most important Tory guns over...	Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela Best Price: $29.95 A biography of Nelson Mandela, a key figure in world politics today. Told through unique letters...	My Life in Politics Born in 1913 to poor working-class parents, Willy Brandt was involved in socialist politics from...	Kings and Queens of Great Britain An illustrated chart of the family tree of the British Royal family, from the earliest times to...

SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW A Friendship Across Five Continents	A Commonplace Book Best Price: $70.44 When Sir Alec Guinness died in August 2000 at the age of 86, he left behind two exercise books...	The Princes in the Tower Best Price: $14.00 The spectacle of the cruel, hunchbacked king, Richard III, ending once and for all the menacing...	Rise to Be A People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe (Blacks in the New World) Best Price: $19.99 Paul Cuffe who lived from 1759 to 1817 was a remarkable man. He was a self made man, a...	Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement (SPS) Best Price: $32.68 This is the inspiring story of an African American whose athletic and entrepreneurial...

Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure Now available for the first time in paperback, "Last Full Measure" is the fourth and...	For Freedom's Sake: THE LIFE OF FANNIE LOU HAMER (Women in American History) Best Price: $53.15 I have read and heard so much about men in the Civil Rights Movement, and I have read so little...	Blue Rhythms: SIX LIVES IN RHYTHM AND BLUES (Music in American Life) Best Price: $18.99 "Somebody has to pay the dues", says La Vern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of...	Doowop: The Chicago Scene (Music in American Life) Best Price: $341.75 Basses burbled low, tenors soared, leads wailed, and choruses chanted in harmony in the earliest...	Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: POETRY SONGS AND GREAT BASIN CONTEXT (Music in American Life) The Ghost Dance, which led to the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, was a widespread Native...

My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness (Creative Nonfiction Series) Best Price: $15.00 Davis writes extremely well and the images of his youth are quite powerful. He also does an...	Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power Best Price: $70.43 Carl B. Stokes And The Rise Of Black Political Power by Leonard N. Moore (Assistant Professor of...	The Making of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Women in American History) Best Price: $42.05 I've done a little research on this powerful black woman who wanted to help black people...	Big Ron: A Different Ball Game Best Price: $7.53 Ron Atkinson is one of English football's most flamboyant characters. In his autobiography,...	When You're Smiling: the Illustrated Biography of Les Daw Hb Best Price: $35.00

Betty: The Autobiography Betty Driver M.B.E. is a British national treasure. For her early years, she was driven by the...	Whicker's World Take 2 Best Price: $98.31 For a man who has spent his working lifetime as a journalist and film-maker, Whicker has, as...	Joanna Lumley Best Price: $3.09 This affectionate and immensely readable biography charts the remarkable life of Joanna Lumley,...	Queen Victoria Goes to the Theatre	Famous Irish Men and Women (Step-Up History) Best Price: $15.24 The titles in this series focus on important events in Irish history and on exploring Ireland?s...

Churchills in Africa	A Late Education: Episodes in a Life Best Price: $96.00	The Endless Steppe	Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan Best Price: $40.00 This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation...	Jerry Lewis (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $64.97 Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie...

Serving Genius: Carlo Maria Giulini Best Price: $27.24 FANTASTIC book! If Carlo Maria Giulini interests you, don't hesitate to buy this book. I...	The First American Women Architects Best Price: $43.46 Interesting book. Uneven in coverage of individual women. My internet research has provided...	The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives Best Price: $17.84 This is a well written book about fascinating women. I know many of the women Leslie writes...	Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Sport and Society) Best Price: $12.25 Cayleff has thoroughly researched and documented Babe's life and times. She conducted...	Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos (Music in American Life) Best Price: $41.50 Bitter Music (as well as the other writings in the collection) reads like a journal, a...

Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948 (Folklore and Society) Best Price: $30.00 Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award and the Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award,...	Life of Henry David Thoreau Best Price: $19.49 "No Englishman did more in the nineteenth century to advance the literary reputation of...	Tales and Trails of Illinois Best Price: $12.91 Originally published as weekly columns in newspapers, Stu Fliege's Tales & Trails Of...	A life of contrasts: The autobiography of Diana Mosley At the outbreak of World War II, Diana Mosley, the Mitford sister who grew up with the...	Maid Matelot This is an account of the experiences of a WREN in Warsash and Southampton during World War II,...

Kelly: A Biography of Sean Kelly	My Horses, My Teachers	Rupert of the Rhine	In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary	Don't Shoot the Yanqui Best Price: $68.72

Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE YEARS Best Price: $15.28 The standard account of Lincoln's years in the Illinois legislature. The author himself...	Artists as Professors: Conversations with Musicians, Painters, Sculptors Best Price: $69.34	Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13: 1914-15. Assistant editors, Susan Valenza and Sadie M. Harlan Best Price: $54.75	Whicker's World Take 2 Best Price: $0.02 Following the best-selling first volume of his autobiography, Alan Whicker presents a hugely...	From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me

Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict Best Price: $82.58 What a self-indulgent, rackety and restless life this woman has led, and she makes no bones...	Real Wagner Best Price: $83.40 This is an excellent and useful book. Though there is some commentary by Sabor, the book is...	Coppola By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards; at the same time he was over $20...	Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy Best Price: $84.72 This is about Kim Philby's life. (really Harlord Adrian Russel Philby)He lived from...	ANTON THE DOVE-FANCIER Best Price: $384.58

Ten Glorious Years Pb	On Top Down Under: Australia's Cricket Captains Pb Best Price: $159.59	Reminiscences of Lance Corporal of Industry	Sovereign Lady: Life of Elizabeth, Third Lady Holland, with Her Family	ANNE CARROLL MOORE - A Biography

Al Bowlly	Sweet Robin: Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1533-88 Best Price: $256.57 Mr. Wilson's Sweet Robin is a well-written book that is supported by many facts, but not...	Shout!: The true story of the Beatles The first and best Beatles biography, fully updated and reissued to coincide with the 40th...	Gladstone (v. 1)	DeLorean: The Rise and Fall of a Dream Maker Best Price: $59.95

Randolph: A Study of Churchill's Son	The Dragon Empress Life and Times of Tz"u-hsi 1835- 1908 Empress Dowager of China	Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life) Best Price: $18.94 I don't want the gossip, I want the music. Nelson George gives that to us in this excellent...	Claire Denis (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $21.36 Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today,...	Roman Polanski (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $8.30 A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's Roman Polanski ...

Jane Campion (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $11.70 The subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world's greatest film directors ...	A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales Best Price: $19.14 Enjoyed reading about Junius Scales and family very much. Gives a good feeling for the times in...	Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche (International Nietzsche Studies) Best Price: $7.95 A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacy ...	Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham Best Price: $16.22 Devil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A. Dunham, Civil War spy, forger,...	Jesse Owens: An American Life (Sport and Society (SPS)) Best Price: $5.00 Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse...

Manoel de Oliveira (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $7.49 Part of the Contemporary Film Directors series, Manoel de Oliveira is an in-depth examination of...	Jim Jarmusch (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $18.93 The first major English-language study of Jarmusch At a time when gimmicky, action-driven...	Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life) Best Price: $18.94 I don't want the gossip, I want the music. Nelson George gives that to us in this excellent...	Claire Denis (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $21.36 Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today,...	Roman Polanski (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $8.30 A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's Roman Polanski ...

Jane Campion (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $11.70 The subversive style of the woman who has become one of the world's greatest film directors ...	A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales Best Price: $19.14 Enjoyed reading about Junius Scales and family very much. Gives a good feeling for the times in...	Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche (International Nietzsche Studies) Best Price: $7.95 A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacy ...	Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham Best Price: $16.22 Devil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A. Dunham, Civil War spy, forger,...	Jesse Owens: An American Life (Sport and Society (SPS)) Best Price: $5.00 Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse...

Manoel de Oliveira (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $7.49 Part of the Contemporary Film Directors series, Manoel de Oliveira is an in-depth examination of...	Jim Jarmusch (Contemporary Film Directors) Best Price: $18.93 The first major English-language study of Jarmusch At a time when gimmicky, action-driven...

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