The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them? 24 pages of photos. Map.
This portrayal of a complex man, this biography explores Thomas Jefferson's inner life and his relationship with Sally Hemings. Jefferson is shown to be a man of passion and feeling. The author shows how Jefferson wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race and love - ambivalences that exerted a powerful influence on his political ...
"Brilliant. . . . [Brodie's] scholarship is wide and searching, and her understanding of Burton and his wife both deep and wide. She writes with clarity and zest. The result is a first class biography of an exceptional man."-J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review
In this biography of the chief architect of Reconstruction after the Civil War, Fawn Brodie seeks to explain the basis for his actions, the nature of his economic radicalism, and the emotional forces that resulted in his becoming one of the most controversial figures in American history. She describes his roles as father of the Fourteenth ...
The book takes its title from a half-defiant, half-wistful pronouncement Joseph Smith himself made toward the close of the short, tragic melodrama that was his life. 'No man knows my history, ' he said. But the reader is made to known him fully--the man, the world from which he came, the extraordinary impact he made.
" ...offers the quickest way I know to acquire the basic historical background that we ought all to have." - O N Louis J. Halle, Survival. This classic in the field of military history covers weaponry from Archimedes catapult down to MIRV and the ABM, emphasizes the contributions of science to warfare, and includes an extensive new chapter on the ...
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West
