Best Biographies Of Historical Figures - April 2024

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

• ASIN: 1101947861
• ASIN: 1101947861
• ISBN: 1101947861
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

• ASIN: 1476795924
• ASIN: 1476795924
• ISBN: 1476795924
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062363603
• ASIN: 0062363603
• ISBN: 0062363603
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerThe Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hip hop icon (LL Cool J), an Irish tennis pro (James McGee), an NBC sportscaster (Michele Tafoya), and the coaches and players of winning teams like the New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Cubs, and University of Texas men’s basketball team.The book draws its inspiration from stoicism, the ancient Greek phi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1591846358
• UPC: 884534461151
• ASIN: 1591846358
• ISBN: 1591846358
• Brand: Portfolio Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Portfolio

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestsellerThis edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It is the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and ad... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062662376
• ASIN: 0062662376
• ISBN: 9780062662378
• Brand: HarperCollins
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

America's First Daughter: A Novel

THE NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph--a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, she becomes his hel... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062347268
• ASIN: 0062347268
• ISBN: 0062347268
• Brand: William Morrow Co
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

New York Times best seller One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2018 One of The Economist's best books of 2018 One of The New York Times' notable books of 2018  "Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill... A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain's savior." (Wall Street Journal)  In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman, and leader can finally be fully seen and understood - by the b... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07K4DL8QP
• ASIN: B07K4DL8QP
• Manufacturer: Penguin Audio

1776

• ASIN: B000FCK5YE
• ASIN: B000FCK5YE
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Alexander Hamilton

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biog... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0007OB58A
• ASIN: B0007OB58A
• Manufacturer: Penguin Audio

Leonardo da Vinci

The author of the acclaimed best sellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most creative genius. Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made i... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071S8BNDP
• ASIN: B071S8BNDP
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

"Not since I read Erik Larson's Dead Wake have I had such an edge-of-my-seat immersion into historical events. [...] No study of Alexander Hamilton would be complete without reading this book."-Karen White, New York Times bestselling authorFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of America's First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton--a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. In this haunting, moving, and beautifully written novel, Dray and Kamoie used thousands of letters and original sources... [Read More]

• ASIN: 006246616X
• ASIN: 006246616X
• ISBN: 006246616X
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316226181
• ASIN: 0316226181
• ISBN: 9780316226189
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Maus : A Survivor's Tale. I. My Father Bleeds History. II. And Here My Troubles Began

Now in a paperback boxed set, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679748407
• UPC: 884609854253
• ASIN: 0679748407
• ISBN: 9780679748403
• Brand: Pantheon Books 1992
• Manufacturer: Pantheon

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good. They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman li... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062742469
• ASIN: 0062742469
• ISBN: 0062742469
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

In the Time of the Butterflies

25th Anniversary Edition "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” --St. Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies. I... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1565129768
• ASIN: 1565129768
• ISBN: 1565129768
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

The Historical Figure of Jesus

Presenting a cogent and balanced view of Jesus as a person, a theologian examines different interpretations of Jesus's aims and teachings, discussing the disciples' role in Christianity's

• UPC: 519018
• Rating: 4.2

A Bibliography of History and Historical Biography : Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in the Best Books and the Reader's Guide (1897)

A Bibliography of History and Historical Biography: Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in the Best Books and the Reader's Guide

• UPC: 504545305

A Bibliography of History and Historical Biography : Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in the Best Books and the Reader's Guide (1897)

A Bibliography of History and Historical Biography: Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in the Best Books and the Reader's Guide

• UPC: 638466481

A Bibliography of History and Historical Biography : Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in the Best Books and the Reader's Guide (1897)

A Bibliography of History and Historical Biography: Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in the Best Books and the Reader's Guide

• UPC: 331335971

Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson | Summary - eBook

Summary ofHidden FiguresFrom Margot Lee ShetterlyKatherine Johnson:One of the Black Woman Mathematicians Who Worked with NASA on the Space RaceBy Summary StationKatherine Coleman Goble Johnson is one of the most important pioneers from the American

• UPC: 350561611

Biographical Stories : Tales from the Childhoods of Six Historical Figures

Biographical Stories: Tales from the Childhoods of Six Historical

• UPC: 53386015

Alexander the Great : Military Commander and King of Ancient Greece - Biography Best Sellers | Children's Biographies - eBook

You know a lot about the Ancient Greece because of the writings of philosophers. But did you know that military personnel also helped to make Ancient Greece one of the most successful early civilizations in

• UPC: 333004962

Biography of Shen Kuo 沈括 - eBook

Shen Kuo (Chinese: 沈括; 1031–1095) , courtesy name Cunzhong (存中) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (夢溪翁),[1] was a Han Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in

• UPC: 118342584

Selected Biographies of Chinese Empress Dowager in Major Dynasties - eBook

The book is the volume of "Selected Biographies of Chinese Empress Dowager in Major Dynasties" among a series of books for "100 Biographies on Chinese Historical

• UPC: 213877594

Selected Biographies of Treacherous Officials in Ancient China - eBook

The book is the volume of "Selected Biographies of Treacherous Officials in Ancient China" among a series of books for "100 Biographies on Chinese Historical

• UPC: 163884717

The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln Best Stories Anthony Gross 1994 Hardcover

• UPC: 264659404893
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 6 USD