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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha · 672 pages
A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa. "In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish him
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Arthur Herman · 736 pages
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain's most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle
The Shah
Abbas Milani · 488 pages
An Iranian scholar chronicles the life and legacy of the last Shah of Iran, including his role in the creation of the modern Islamic republic.
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin · 1,184 pages
"A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly domin
With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates · 492 pages
A biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, covering both his personal and public life.
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Walter Stahr · 703 pages
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives
Alan Bullock · 1,085 pages
All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
John Taliaferro · 673 pages
John Hay was both witness and author of many of the most significant chapters in American history--from the birth of the Republican Party, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War, to the prelude to the First World War. Much of what we know about Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt comes to us through the observations Hay made while private secretary to one and secretary of state to the othe
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · 1,019 pages
This book is a major new biography -- an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich rev
Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey
Andrew Mango · 602 pages
"In this new biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first to appear in English based on Turkish sources, Andrew Mango strips away the myth to show the complexities of one of the most visionary, influential, and enigmatic statesmen of the century - his high ideals and ruthless tactics, his championship of women's rights and his inability to sustain an equal relationship with women, his nationalism
Coolidge
Amity Shlaes · 565 pages
From the Publisher... Amity Shlaes chronicles a riveting portrait of a great American president, Calvin Coolidge, who served in office in the 1920s. He was known to many as "Silent Cal" and to some as "Scrooge." His personality portrayed a quiet, passive man, old fashioned, but the most modern of all presidents. His discipline represented strength, and he was admired for his courage. From the g
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
Merle Miller
Trotsky: A Biography
Robert Service · 612 pages
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky.
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter R. Borneman · 422 pages
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and, most notably, brought
Young Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore · 460 pages
The shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar--the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill and Roosevelt, and defeated Hitler? Historian Montefiore tells th
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Joseph J. Ellis · 282 pages
John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in retirement grappling with contradictory views of his place in history and fearing his reputation would not fare well in the generations after his death. In an incomplete autobiography, and in numerous publications and voluminous correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and many o
Martin Van Buren
Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 208 pages
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
Isaac Deutscher · 540 pages
*The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879–1921* is the first in a three volume biography of Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein[c]) (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940) by the Polish-British historian Isaac Deutscher. It was first published in 1954 by Oxford University Press. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophet_Armed:_Trotsky,_1879%E2%80%931921))
Huey Long
T. Harry Williams · 884 pages
A detailed biography of the red-neck politician who became a national demagogue in the twenties and thirties and almost reached the White House.
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
Kirstin Downey · 477 pages
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Frances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. As the first female cabinet secretary, at the height of the Great Depression, she spearheaded the fight to improve the lives of America's working people while juggling her own family responsibilities. Perk