Biography
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Arlen Specter: A Biography [Hardback]
Evan Laine (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822946762
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
From his early work as a lawyer on the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to his days as Philadelphia's district attorney to his thirty-year career as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Spe... .... Learn More -
Son of Spinoza: Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism [Hardback]
Søren Blak Hjortshøj (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9788772190181
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The Danish scholar and critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927) is still recognized for his work today and seen by many as the theorist behind the so-called Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavia. He lived in Copenhagen for most of his life, travelling Europe... .... Learn More -
The Notorious John Morrissey: How a Bare-Knuckle Brawler Became a Congressman and Founded Saratoga Race Course [Paperback]
James C. Nicholson (Author)
£14.50ISBN: 9780813180991
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Horses in History
An Irish immigrant, a collection agent for crime bosses, a professional boxer, and a prodigious gambler, John Morrissey was - if nothing else - an unlikely candidate to become one of the most important figures in the history of Thoroughbred racing... .... Learn More -
Getting Right with Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions about Our Greatest President [Hardback]
Edward Steers (Author); Joseph Garrera (Foreword)
£20.00ISBN: 9780813180908
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Of the many presidents and founding figures of the United States, few have garnered more attention than Abraham Lincoln. Much of what we know about Lincoln's life comes from anecdotes providing only brief glimpses of the man. As such, there is gre... .... Learn More -
Watchman at the Gates: A Soldier's Journey from Berlin to Bosnia [Hardback]
George Joulwan (Author); David Chanoff (Author); Tom Brokaw (Author)
£21.50ISBN: 9780813180847
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: AUSA Books - American Warriors Series
Gen. George Joulwan built his 36-year military career during one of the most tumultuous eras in US history - the 1960s. Raised in a small Pennsylvania coal mining town, Joulwan would be present at the rise and fall of the Berlin wall, fight in Vie... .... Learn More -
Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography [Paperback]
Lawrence J. Quirk (Author); William Schoell (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813180496
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her port... .... Learn More -
Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film [Paperback]
Alan K. Rode (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780813180434
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz (1886-1962) - whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) - was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecede... .... Learn More -
Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life [Paperback]
Stephen Michael Shearer (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813180717
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
The internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal has been a star on stage, film, and television for nearly sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, for which she ... .... Learn More -
The Eagle on My Arm: How the Wilderness and Birds of Prey Saved a Veteran's Life [Hardback]
Dava Guerin (Author); Terry Bivens (Author); Jack E. Davis (Author); Floyd Scholz (Author)
£19.50ISBN: 9780813180021
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: AUSA Books - American Warriors Series
In October 1967, eighteen-year-old Patrick Bradley enlisted in the US Army and was later deployed to North Vietnam as a special operator with missions to kill high-value targets. Combat left him physically and psychologically wounded, as it does m... .... Learn More -
Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process [Paperback]
Steven H. Gale (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780813180502
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal, c... .... Learn More
