J. O. McClurkan: His Life, His Theology, & Selections from His Writings
Nashville, Tennessee: Trevecca Nazarene Univ, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
The best biographies give us a satisfying glimpse into a great person’s life, while also teaching us about the context in which that person lived. Through biography, we can also learn history, psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, and more. Reading a great biography is both fun and educational. What’s not to love?
Nashville, Tennessee: Trevecca Nazarene Univ, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1897. First Edition, First Printing. A very Good Hardcover. An examination of the religious beliefs of prominent poets. Background Information:Augustus Hopkins Strong was a Baptist minister and theologian who lived in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most influential.....
New York: Random House, 1999. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Often celebrated as the ideal capitalist or excoriated as the robber baron who most epitomized the excesses and iniquities of the Gilded Age, J. Pierpont Morgan has, in Strouse, finally been accorded a biographer whose talents match his enormous legacy.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Background Information:When Wolfe met Mrs. Bernstein shortly before his twenty-fifth birthday in 1925, she was forty-four, married, and at the pinnacle of a successful career as a stage and.....
New York: Galadad Books, 1996. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. An exhaustive profile of the nation's most powerful newspaper mogul explores the life and times of William Randolph Hearst, his turbulent and flamboyant personal life, his controversial style of journalism, and the growth of his publishing empire.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. John Calvin Hartzell was made commander of Company H, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry when his captain was killed during the Battle of Perryville, He led his men during the Battle of Chickamauga, the siege of Chattanooga, and.....
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
Nashville, Tennessee: The Bob Taylor Publishing Co., 1913. Robert L. Taylor, three-term governor and one-term U.S. senator, was born into a political family in Carter County, July 31, 1850. At the time, his uncle Landon Carter Haynes, a Democrat, was serving as Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. Very Good Hardcovers. Thatcher was a Boston antislavery leader, opposed the policies of Garrison and urged African repatriation. In addition to his Memoir of Phillis Wheatley (1834), he wrote other books on blacks, and was also known for his Indian Biography.Ref: Sabin 95216; Oxford.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Caitlin Thomas was the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Their marriage was a stormy affair, fueled by alcohol and infidelity, though the couple remained together until Dylan's death in 1953. After her husband's.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Later Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A critical examination of Jones's life and legacy, challenging myths while confirming his status as a Revolutionary icon. Jones's journey from Scottish lowliness to a pioneering American naval hero, despite personal controversies and unbridled ambition, showcases his significant.....
New York: Villard / Random House, 1997. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Commencing with a spirited high school essay penned in 1955 and spanning through 1967, when the release of Hell's Angels thrust Thompson into the limelight as a global sensation.The book paints a vivid picture of Thompson in his early.....
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehartand Winston, 1964. First Edition, Second Printing Printing. A Very Good Hardcover.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In 1885, America's greatest inventor, the "wizard" of electricity and Yankee industrialization, established a second home in Florida. Unlike the many wealthy turn-of-the century vacationers who descended on Florida's tourist cities to.....
U.S.A. Gray's Publishing, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1980. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. In the introduction to her book, Women's Friendships in Literature, Janet Todd says that the main reason for writing the book is to prove Virginia Woolf wrong. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf claims that.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fascinating, tragic, and even comic, Life and Death in the Balkans is the story of a young boy whose life, much like the history of Yugoslavia, has been characterized by inescapable violence and brutal conflict.Beginning some.....
New York: Viking Press, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. A first novel which projects, with some indirection, the troubled, tentative relationships which exist between Elliot and Jay Whittaker, brothers.
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1977. Full Gilt Decorated Leather. The definitive biography of one of the most enduring political figures of the 20th century. Margaret Truman writes with unequaled insight and understanding about her father's extraordinary life and offers rare glimpses at the personalities and politics behind the world events of.....
Garden City, New York: Garden City Pub. Co., 1945. Sophie Tucker (1886-1966) was an American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality. Known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century.....
New York and London: I. B. Tauris, 2007. Soft cover. This anthology brings together excerpts from over one hundred documents detailing women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of World War I. It looks in detail at all aspects of life for women in Britain.....
New York, New York, U.S.A. Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Collected here are over thirty original letters especially written for this book by some of the world's most prominent figures to their grandchildren. Intimate in tone, the letters reflect on the writers' own.....
La Jolla, Ca: IMC Publication, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Minneapolis: Oliver Press Inc., 1993. Second Printing. A Fine Hardcover in a "library" binding. Interesting facts about 10 obscure American women who invented famous things fill the pages of this very readable book. +++ Elizabeth Pinckney of the eighteenth century was responsible for the development of the commercial crop of.....
USA: Mayhaven Publishers, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. An account of 10 sisters separated in 1942, and their fifty year effort to re-establish ties with each other.