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In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family’s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur …
As William Nester asserts in The Age of Jackson, it takes quite a leader to personify an age. A political titan for thirty-three years (1815–1848), Andrew Jackson possessed …
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography Morris B. Abram (1918–2000) emerged from humble origins in a rural South Georgia town to become one of the leading civil …
After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm’s parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks, sent from …
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Biography Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon …
When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a rifle and sit a horse as well as …
2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Traditional Nonfiction 2021 Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was …
An underacknowledged newspaper publisher and conservative activist receives her biographical due.—Kirkus ReviewsNewspaper publisher and GOP kingmaker Nackey Scripps Loeb headed the …
On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became …