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  • When the Cheering Stopped

    The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson

    by Gene Smith ...
    The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory.This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson's fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of the American presidency.Author Gene Smith brilliantly captures the drama and excitement of Wilson's efforts at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Gothic

    The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family—Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth

    by Gene Smith ...
    A New York Times–bestselling author's "lively" account of a family of famous actors—who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln ( The New Yorker).Junius Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, were nineteenth-century America's most famous theatrical family. Yet the Booth name is forever etched in the history books for one terrible reason: the assassination of President ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lee and Grant

    A Dual Biography

    by Gene Smith ...
    A biography of the two gifted Civil War commanders from a New York Times–bestselling author: "A great story . . . History at its best" ( Publishers Weekly).Their names are forever linked in the history of the Civil War, but Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant could not have been more dissimilar. Lee came from a world of Southern gentility and aristocratic privilege while Grant had coarser, more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Until the Last Trumpet Sounds

    The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing

    by Gene Smith ...
    Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds"The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I." Booklist"A six-star effort . . . captures Pershing better than anyone has before." The Grand Rapids PressOn The Shattered Dream"A storyteller of history, Gene Smith is one of the very best in his field." The Washington PostOn When the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mounted Warriors

    From Alexander the Great and Cromwell to Stuart, Sheridan, and Custer

    by Gene Smith ...
    Men, Horses, and All Kinds of WeaponsIt may startle some people to remember that, little more than a century ago, the horse was not only humanity's primary means of swift transportation, it was also a major participant in warfare. For more than four thousand years, men mounted horses and galloped at one another in large numbers, wielding clubs, axes, lances, swords, bows and arrows, pistols, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scripture, Logic, Language

    Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

    by Tom J. F. Tillemans, E. Gene Smith ...
    Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
    Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits, and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory, his notoriously difficult thought nonetheless remains poorly understood.In this volume, one of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Out and Back

    by Curtis Gene Smith ...
    The book chronicles our exploits as nomadic international travelers. On our journey we found new life-long friends,learned much history, discovered new and exciting places, were taught lessons on humility and world-citizenship, and above all, bonded as a family.Reflecting on our adventure, sometimes our exploits were humorous and sometimes were thought provoking, but always they were rewarding. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Orphans of Davenport

    Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence

    by Marilyn Brookwood ...
    The fascinating—and eerily timely—tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who launched the modern science of childhood development.“Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Their IQ scores, added together, totaled just 81. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs of the times, Skeels ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Kennedy and Roosevelt

    The Uneasy Alliance

    by Michael Beschloss ...
    The revealing story of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy, and a political alliance that changed history, from a New York Times–bestselling author.When Franklin Roosevelt ran for president in 1932, he gained the support of Joseph Kennedy, a little-known businessman with Wall Street connections. Instrumental in Roosevelt's victory, their partnership began a longstanding alliance between two of America ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Surrender

    by Burke Davis ...
    A panoramic and spellbinding history of the last days of the Confederacy and the flight, capture, and imprisonment of Jefferson DavisIn April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House. But the Civil War was far from over.Determined to keep Confederate dreams of secession alive, President ... Read more

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  • Sherman's March

    by Burke Davis ...
    A New York Times–bestselling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War.In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to "make Georgia howl." The hero of Shiloh and his 65,000 Federal troops destroyed the great city of Atlanta, captured Savannah, and cut a ... Read more

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  • At the Highest Levels

    The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

    by Michael Beschloss, Strobe Talbott ...
    The landmark story of Bush-Gorbachev diplomacy: "No one has ever given as complete and compelling an account of the higher reaches of foreign policy" ( Time).December 1989. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Millions across the Eastern Bloc were enjoying new freedoms. And the USSR was falling apart. But the peaceful end of the Cold War was far from assured, requiring the leaders of rival superpowers to ... Read more

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