Pete Larkin
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
758 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel on John Brown, the slavery abolitionist, narrated by one of his 20 children. The narrator is his son Owen, who fought at his father's side and he tells the story in a series of letters to a biographer. Owen describes his father as a loving family man and provides insight into Brown's motives for becoming an abolitionist, including business failures.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants eager to Westernize. The media propagated this mirage, and FDR believed that supporting Chiang Kai-shek would make China America's best friend in Asia. But Chiang was on his way out and when Mao Zedong instead came to...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 445 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation: by the end of these two decades, a new regime was in place, the economy had collapsed, and over 20 million Russians had died during the revolution and what...