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The Hamilton affair: a novel
By Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth Cobbs. 2016
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are firebrands in different parts of the world until they are brought together during the…
American Revolution. They both work for freedom and deeply love one another, despite challenges from both outside and inside their marriage. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2016A spotlight for Harry (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
By Eric A. Kimmel, Jim Madsen. 2009
Story based on childhood events of Harry Houdini (1874-1926), who became a famous magician and escape artist. Describes Harry and…
his brother Dash learning to walk a tightrope after going to the circus with their family for the first time. For grades 2-4. 2009Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer--who's that, who? Why, that's MISS Josephine Baker, to you!
By Marjorie Priceman, Jonah Winter. 2012
A tribute to the life of the iconic jazz entertainer depicts her disadvantaged youth in a segregated America, her unique…
performance talents, and the irrepressible sense of style that helped her overcome racial barriers. For grades K-3If I ran for president
By Catherine Stier, Lynne Avril. 2007
The fabulous feud of Gilbert & Sullivan
By Jonah Winter, Richard Egielski. 2009
In the late nineteenth century, Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Sullivan, who write operas together for a theater called Topsy-Turvydom, have…
a falling-out when Mr. Sullivan refuses to write music for another ridiculous story that is like all the others. Caldecott Medalist Richard Egielski teams up with Jonah Winter for a story about how fights sometime make a stronger friendship (and beautiful music to boot!). For grades K-3. 2009See how they run: campaign dreams, election schemes, and the race to the White House
By Susan E. Goodman, Elwood Smith. 2008
Explains the process for electing the president of the United States. Discusses the electoral college system of voting, the role…
of political parties, candidates' campaigns and debates, and the reasons all citizens should vote. Presents historical facts about former presidents and past elections. For grades 4-7. 2008In the line of fire: presidents' lives at stake
By Judith St. George. 1999
Discusses the assassinations of four American presidents: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Also describes seven…
unsuccessful attempts on other U.S. chief executives. Briefly explains each leader's life and times and the criminals' reasons for their attacks. For grades 5-8. 1999George Washington's breakfast (PaperStar)
By Jean Fritz, Tomie DePaola. 1998
Young George W. Allen, who shares both the name and birthday of the first president, is determined to find out…
what his namesake ate for breakfast. His search takes him to the library, to the attic, and to Mount Vernon. For grades 2-4. 1969Between each line of pain and glory: my life story
By Gladys Knight. 1997
Knight recalls the ups and downs of her life. She describes her struggle to become well known, first along with…
the Pips and later as a solo performer, and discusses her family, her various addictions, her failed marriages, and her feelings of isolation within the world of show businessHail to the chief: the making and unmaking of American presidents
By Robert Dallek. 1996
Explores the reasons some presidents are regarded as great national heroes while others become mere sidebars in history. Avers that…
vision, pragmatism, charisma, and the ability to gain trust and achieve consensus are critical to presidential success, though luck and circumstance also countMargaret Suckley was a sixth cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt and ten years his junior. When she died at ninety-nine…
in 1991, Suckley left diaries and correspondence describing their close relationship. This volume contains Suckley's letters to Roosevelt, his to her, and excerpts from her papers from 1933-1945Grace
By Robert Lacey. 1994
The author examines the image of a beautiful fairy-tale princess who did not live happily ever after. Lacey chronicles the…
story of Grace Kelly's abbreviated life through her American phase, depicting the actress with a cool, classy facade and a tawdry private life. When the Hollywood star married her European prince, the location of her fantasy life changed, but reality began to destroy the portrait. BestsellerAnn-Margret: my story
By Todd Gold, T. Gold, Ann-Margret. 1994
Nominated twice for an Academy Award, Ann-Margret has sung, danced, and acted in movies, on television, and on stage including…
(at the age of fifty) a performance with the Rockettes. After a brief romance with Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret married actor Roger Smith. She discusses how they remained together despite her battle with alcohol, a serious accident, and negative press about their relationship. BestsellerIn history's shadow: an American odyssey
By Mickey Herskowitz, John Connally, John Bowden Connally. 1993
Account of a political life that may appear to have been more in the limelight than in the shadow. Connally…
begins with the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy, when Connally, then Texas governor, was wounded. He recalls his relationship with Lyndon Johnson, his re- birth as a Republican and Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary, and his unsuccessful run for the presidency. Some strong languagePersonal witness: Israel through my eyes
By Abba Solomon Eban, Abba Eban. 1992
Eban, who was on hand at the creation of the independent Jewish state, presents five decades of Israel's history as…
seen by him in his positions in the Israeli government, including ambassador to both the United States and the United Nations. He offers his views on political figures such as Bush, Truman, Churchill, Sadat, King Hussein, Ben-Gurion, and Begin, and his insights on world events, including the Gulf WarDear Dad: letters from an adult child
By Louie Anderson. 1989
Stand-up comic Louie Anderson's letters to his deceased father are an effort to exorcize the demons of a childhood spent…
with an alcoholic father. For Anderson, a member of Adult Children of Alcoholics, his letters were a journey of self-discovery in which he came to understand that his own addiction to food stemmed from his father's addiction to alcohol. Some strong languageHarold Macmillan: v. 2, 1957-1986
By Alistair Horne, Alastair Horne. 1989
Picks up Macmillan's life as he ascends to the prime ministry in 1957. Through liberal use of diaries and letters,…
Horne covers the important issuses that Macmillan dealt with during the remainder of his life, such as England's failure to join the Common Market, and the Profumo scandal. Sequel to "Harold Macmillan: Vol. 1, 1894-1956."As I saw it
By Dean Rusk, Richard Rusk, Daniel S. Papp. 1990
A portrait of one of the United States's most enigmatic public figures. Dean Rusk was secretary of state during the…
Vietnam War years. His son Richard left home in 1970 primarily because he opposed his father's views. Fourteen years later, Richard returned to rediscover his relationship with his father by recording the elder Rusk's memoirs. BestsellerIf this was happiness: a biography of Rita Hayworth
By Barbara Leaming. 1989
Leaming shows Hayworth as a constant victim. She focuses on the sexual abuse Hayworth suffered as a child at the…
hands of her father, who used her as a replacement for her alcoholic mother, and Hayworth's attempts to make herself into the person her husbands and lovers expected. Hayworth had several destructive marriages and spent her last years as an Alzheimer's patientThe White House
By Leonard Everett Fisher. 1989
A history of America's most famous residence from the 1790s when its plans were first laid to 1989 and the…
arrival of the Bush family. For grades 4-7 and older readers