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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 458 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers 1923
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The untold story of the mother and daughter who opened the door to Emily Dickinson's poetry. Emily Dickinson may be the most widely read and beloved of all American poets, but the story behind her work's initial, posthumous publication in 1890 and the mother-and-daughter team most responsible for her enduring legacy are barely known. After Emily recounts the extraordinary lives of Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, and the...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's "Officer Clemmons," a Grammy Award-winning artist who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children's television program.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 566 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had--Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan. Allen Dulles ran the OSS's...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Description
Charts Stephen Miller's rise to power in the Trump administration, drawing from more than one hundred interviews with his family, friends, adversaries, and government officials, as well as years of reporting from the U.S. border.
Publisher
Cassell Illustrated
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm
Description
"HIS LIFE WAS A WORK OF ART Now, artists and musicians who worked with David Bowie throughout his life, or were his contemporaries, pay tribute to the icon through through their own words on what it was like to work in collaboration with a man whose fluid artistic genius repeatedly broke boundaries, right up until his death - and alongside these text tributes are 40 stunning illustrative and photographic portraits of Bowie throughout his life. The...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
189) Van Gogh's ear
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Art historians attempt to find out the truth behind Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh cutting off his ear.
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
254 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm
Description
The first, and sure to be definitive, collection of the iconic work of Joe Eula, the foremost illustrator of the late twentieth century, featuring more than 200 gorgeous black-and-white and full-color sketches and illustrations, the majority of which have never been published before. An illustrator, graphic artist, costume designer, stage director, and tastemaker, Joe Eula lived at the center of the high fashion and art worlds. In a career that spanned...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
A Basketball Hall of Famer explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
435 pages
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Description
In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
264 pages
Description
After his decisive defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Prince Charles Edward Stuart was a man on the run. Seeking refuge in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to escape to France, he found an unlikely ally in Flora MacDonald, a young woman in her early twenties, loyal to the Stuarts. Disguising the prince as an Irish maid, petticoats and all, Flora conveyed Charles by boat to Skye, where they lodged safely with her family, until the prince’s inexpert...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
" 'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has founda heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the Edgar-nominated author of the bestselling 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes'...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
392 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
El premiado periodista y experto en inmigración Alfredo Corchado nos llega la extensa historia de la gran migración mexicana desde finales de los años ochenta hasta la actualidad. Cuando Alfredo Corchado se traslada a Filadelfia en 1987 como corresponsal de The Wall Street Journal , se sintió como si fuera el único mexicano en la ciudad. Pero en el restaurant Tequilas conecta con otros dos mexicanos y un mexicoamericano que se sentían tan aislados...
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