Overview :This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor's Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista ... Read More
Overview :When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, crit... Read More
Overview :The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century--an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the li... Read More
Overview :'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of whi... Read More
Overview :The second volume in the life of literary giant Saul Bellow, vividly capturing a personal life that was always tumultuous and career that ne... Read More
Overview :For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Li... Read More
Overview :The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtur... Read More
Overview :The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtur... Read More
Overview :The Romantic author is often portrayed as spontaneous, extemporizing, otherworldly, and alone. Zachary Leader argues that this influential f... Read More
Overview :Leaders Lost is a fresh and sobering first-hand non-fiction account of one man's challenges when facedwith reprisal being forced upon him by... Read More
Overview :Was Richard Nixon actually a madman, or did he just play one?When Richard Nixon battled for the presidency in 1968, he did so with the knowl... Read More
Overview :Over the last three and a half centuries, the town of Westerly, Rhode Island has been home to fascinating people with amazing stories to tel... Read More
Overview :The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. 'We shall have stamped our taste on the age between us in the end', b... Read More
Overview :Step back in time to the early 19th century and discover the life and legacy of Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States. Bor... Read More
Overview :The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lea... Read More
Overview :The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly sheds light on the inimitable life of a neglected figure in American political and literary history.... Read More