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Lone Star Nation
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2005; US$ 19.00In Lone Star Nation , Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas?s journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in American history. From Stephen Austin, Texas?s reluctant founder, to the alcoholic Sam Houston, who came to lead the Texas army in its hour of crisis and glory, to President Andrew... more...
Andrew Jackson
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2006; US$ 16.95National Bestseller In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in. An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the Presidency... more...
Traitor to His Class
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 22.00NATIONAL BESTSELLER A brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents. Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency, H. W. Brands shows how Roosevelt transformed American government... more...
The Age of Gold
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 17.95?I have found it.? These words, uttered by the man who first discovered gold on the American River in 1848, triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California?s gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth. It accelerated America?s imperial expansion and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil... more...
American Colossus
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 17.95In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power. The years between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century... more...
The First American
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 18.00National Bestseller He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor,... more...
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James ?Jubilee Jim? Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era... more...
The Man Who Saved the Union
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 35.00From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and... more...
Masters of Enterprise
Free Press 2012; US$ 23.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Masters of Enterprise
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