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A Woman of Valor
When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet …
Abraham Lincoln
An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates's unique exploration …
Biography as High Adventure
In this volume ten distinguished biographers discuss the principles and practices of their craft.
Our Fiery Trial
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr." --Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia …
The Approaching Fury
Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, …
Rip Ford’s Texas
The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in …
To Purge This Land with Blood
Nearly one hundred fifty years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history. In 1970, …
The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
"A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America's history." --New York TimesThe definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion …
Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths
An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates's unique exploration …
With Malice toward None
A masterful biography of Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his …
Let the Trumpet Sound
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Award, this brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. portrays a very real man and his …