John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy, Paperback - Evan Thomas

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justi...

Reducere. He was "Good Bobby, " who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it." And "Bad B...

The landmark New York Times bestselling biography of Richard M. Nixon, a political savant whose gaping character flaws would drive him from the pre...

Reducere. Legendary attorney Edward Bennet Williams was arguably the best trial lawyer ever to practice. Now, for the first time, best-selling author Evan Th...

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Reducere. Across black America during the Golden Age of Aviation, John C. Robinson was widely acclaimed as the long-awaited "black Lindbergh." Robinson's fam...

Reducere. The inspiring, deeply patriotic true story of John Glenn, a true hero who not only changed America's contribution to space exploration but also spe...

Reducere. Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet with...

Reducere. A Captain afraid to bathe. A cat who likes to tell lies.Captain Stinky's ship is loaded with Rainbow Lollypops to sell on far away islands, but tro...

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 195...

After 50 years of keeping the tormenting memories of the Vietnam War at bay, Robert W. Smith unveils the horrific experiences he lives with daily. ...

Reducere. Emil Kapaun priest, soldier and Korean War hero was a rare man. He was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor, the nation s highest military award...

Reducere. On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where ...

Deals with music during the eighteenth- and early nineteenth centuries (Bach through Beethoven) and touches on Romantic and Twentieth-Century music...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

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Reducere. Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval batt...

John Inglis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a slave trading merchant. 'I am Determined to Live or Die on Board My Ship' covers his action-pack...

Reducere. America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society...

Reducere. It's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I came here, where freedom is...

Reducere. DescriptionSaint John of the Cross is considered by many as the greatest Spiritual Doctor of the Catholic Church. This high honor elevates his spir...

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, an...

A powerful and timely new novel that blends faith, the church, conscience and celibacy, Keneally draws on his own experience as an ex-seminarian an...

In more than 300 pictures, this book presents a gallery of the main ships of the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American war. Most images come from o...

Reducere. "I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea." Alain Gerbault The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea invites you to look behind c...

John Newton hated being a sailor. The ship's officers treated him terribly. John wondered how God could have let this happen to him. Every day he g...

Reducere. At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Wash...

DescriptionLater Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one...

Reducere. What makes a true leader?Is leadership a title? Authority? Charisma? Whatever getsthe best results? Today more than ever, Christians need a model o...

Award-winning author, Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as "The Fath...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, ...

Reducere. The wisdom from these stories can become a companion on your own spiritual journey.Native American Stories of the Sacred are intended for more than...

DescriptionThe goal of this book is to offer you an invitation to look more deeply at the path to holiness and to discover the way in which you can...

Reducere. Description"I will spend my Heaven doing good on Earth " For more than a century, Saint Th r se of Lisieux, also known as "The Little Flower, " has...