Historiske og politiske biografier

"Perhaps, if bookshops can be haunted, No. 4 Sheep Street can claim more ghosts than most. Haunted certainly by my father" That was my father's opening line to his unfinished memoir discovered a few days after his death in 2002. He called it The Life and Death of a Stratford Bookshop, but it was so much more than that. Aged seventy, he had decided he must at last tell the truth about his overpowering and eccentric father, Captain William Jaggard. However it seemed he couldn't bring himself to finish his heartfelt story. It ended abruptly.Three years ago, I received a strange enquiry from an American researcher seeking a famous Shakespearean book, once owned by the Captain, complete with Shakespeare's signature. I started to investigate and dug into 'the Jaggard Papers', the Captain's research on the Jaggard family tree from over a hundred years ago.And so the idea began to form that I should try to discover what happened to Gerald and his family, learn why he abandoned his emotional story, and - if I could - complete his memoir.The iconic old bookshop in the heart of Stratford-upon-Avon links the two men, but the real drama concerns my grandfather's colourful and rather unbelievable life, the damaging impact on Gerald, and of how he survived and started a new life.Shakespeare Press, Gerald's completed memoir, charts our three-year journey of discovery.

'A sweeping, scintillatingly original, exciting exploration of writer, spy, power player, lover Aphra Behn' Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots'Hilton to showcase[s] her skill for both historical and detective work and compelling, evocative writing . . . A sparkling and eye-opening account . . . compelling to read [and] refreshingly transparent . . . Her fresh ideas could open up exciting paths for future scholars' BBC History Magazine----A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR 'Whereas the Lady Henrietta Berkeley has been absent from her Father's house since the 20th August last past . . . AN OUTRAGEOUS ELOPEMENT. . . and is not yet known where she is, nor whether she is alive or dead. STOLEN LETTERS, SCHEMING SERVANTS These are to give notice That whoever shall find her, so that she may be brought back to her Father, the Earl of Berkeley, they shall have 200 Pounds Reward' SEX. SENSATION. CELEBRITY. This is The Scandal of the Century - and the true story of the author Aphra Behn, who used a shocking love affair to create the first English novel . . . ----In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents' home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its own right, but this is no ordinary young woman: Lady Henrietta Berkeley is the daughter of one of England's most powerful men, and her lover is her own sister's husband. As news of this notorious adulteress spreads, her flight, capture and the lawsuit that follow tear through society as the scandal of the century.To Aphra Behn, England's first professional female writer - herself condemned as a scarlet woman of loose morals - Henrietta's trial would be more than a source of shock and intrigue: it would inspire her to write Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, an outrageous and bestselling political fiction and arguably the first novel in English literature.Aphra herself is an enigma, the facts about her life continually disputed. By revealing the story of these two rebellious and ruthless women, Lisa Hilton's new history offers a surprisingly original theory on the origins of one of England's most celebrated playwrights. Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, with its strict traditional conventions of love, duty and identity, The Scandal of the Century shows just how far both women will go to break free.---'Gloriously mind-boggling . . . This is a lively book' Spectator

"An unforgettable portrait of a woman who became one of the most notorious figures of her day and whose scandalous story sheds fascinating light not only on her own tumultuous time but ours as well." - Harold Schechter, author of Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Guinness, Butcher of MenSex, corruption, and power: the rise and fall of the Red Widow of ParisParis, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior, she knows her options are limited.Determined to fashion herself into a new woman, Meg orchestrates a scandalous plan with her most powerful resource: her body. Amid the dazzling glamor, art, and romance of bourgeois Paris, she takes elite men as her lovers, charming her way into the good graces of the rich and powerful. Her ambitions, though, go far beyond becoming the most desirable woman in Paris; at her core, she is a woman determined to conquer French high society. But the game she plays is a perilous one: navigating misogynistic double-standards, public scrutiny, and political intrigue, she is soon vaulted into infamy in the most dangerous way possible.A real-life femme fatale, Meg influences government positions and resorts to blackmail-and maybe even poisoning-to get her way. Leaving a trail of death and disaster in her wake, she earns the name the "Red Widow" for mysteriously surviving a home invasion that leaves both her husband and mother dead. With the police baffled and the public enraged, Meg breaks every rule in the bourgeois handbook and becomes the most notorious woman in Paris.An unforgettable true account of sex, scandal, and murder, The Red Widow is the story of a woman determined to rise-at any cost.

A compelling, important and insightful biography of Indiäs twelfth prime minister and co-founder of the BJP Atal Behari Vajpayee.

The biography of R B Cunninghame Graham; writer, adventurer, politician; co-founder of the Labour Party and of the Scottish National Party, written by his great, great nephew.

Attention texte d'introduction du maître-ouvrage de Romain Rolland et non version intégrale. " Mon premier devoir serait de faire connaître les sources de cette histoire ; mais L¿Averdy, Buchon, J. Quicherat, Vallet de Viriville, Siméon Luce, Boucher de Molandon, MM. Robillard de Beaurepaire, Lanéry d¿Arc, Henri Jadart, Alexandre Sorel, Germain Lefèvre-Pontalis, L. Jarry et plusieurs autres savants, ont publié et illustré les documents de toute sorte d¿après lesquels on peut écrire la vie de Jeanne d¿Arc. Je m¿en réfère à leurs travaux qui forment une opulente bibliothèque[1] et, sans entreprendre une nouvelle étude littéraire de ces documents, j¿indiquerai seulement, d¿une façon rapide et générale, les raisons qui m¿ont dirigé dans l¿usage que j¿ai cru devoir en faire. Ces documents sont : 1o le procès de condamnation ; 2o les chroniques ; 3o le procès de réhabilitation ; 4o les lettres, actes et autres pièces détachées."

Oscar Koch's sterling performance as Gen. George S. Patton Jr.'s intelligence chief, G-2, was a critical element of Patton's success in World War II and earned Koch the reputation as arguably the most brilliant intelligence officer in U.S. Army history.His collection and analysis of information in early winter 1944 led him to issue stern warnings of the German buildup preceding the Battle of the Bulge and let Patton be prepared, but higher headquarters refused to listen. Today, intelligence specialists cite that work as a model for combat intelligence training. After the war, Koch went on to help overhaul the CIA and, in retirement, earned a coveted Guggenheim Fellowship to support research and writing on intelligence in combat.His unlikely friendship with Robert Hays, a young journalist who also happened to be a veteran of Koch's beloved U.S. Third Army, led to a book that has become a crucial source for military historians. Now, Robert Hays offers a deeply personal account of their relationship, reveals the general's astonishingly gentle and caring nature, and describes Koch's philosophy and concerns about the intriguing field of intelligence. Overarching all is the poignant story of Koch's valiant battle with terminal cancer. The reader will understand why Hays grants Oscar Koch the eminent rank of personal hero and feels an obligation to help assure his place in history.

Watriama and Co' is a collection of biographical essays about people associated with the Pacific Islands.

This book is a collection of oral stories from members of an African American family called the Hanna, Heastie, Tynes, who originated on a Bahama Island settlement called Pompey Bay, which is almost uninhabited today. The family traces their origins to three men (John Hanna, George Heastie, and Benjamin Tynes) who were settlers on Acklins Island, and the slaves who worked there in the late 1700s. Due to the isolated nature of the island, the people living there intermarried and became a proud, loving, tightknit family, who thrived and passed down family values through the generations. This book includes memories of everyday life experiences from some of the family members who lived on Acklins and later migrated to Miami, Florida. Today, the family has grown and spread to other Bahama Islands, the U.S. and other parts of the world. As a result of these stories, we have a glimpse of what life was like so many years ago.

" L¿histoire de M. Maine de Biran touche aux circonstances les plus critiques de notre histoire contemporaine, et au premier développement de la philosophie qüon a depuis appelée la philosophie éclectique. Sa vie n¿offre qüun seul évènement, mais il s¿agit de la chute de l¿empire et de la première invasion du territoire ; sa philosophie roule sur une seule question, mais c¿est par l¿étude approfondie de cet unique point que la philosophie française a été renouvelée de fond en comble, ou du moins c¿est par là qüa commencé la grande révolution que nous avons vue s¿accomplir dans les méthodes et dans les idées. Mêlé toute sa vie aux plus grandes choses, il est resté volontairement obscur, pendant que ses amis s¿illustraient à côté de lui ; et, par une bizarre destinée, sans la publication de ses ¿uvres, effectuée après quinze ans, à travers mille obstacles, par les soins d¿une pieuse et persévérante amitié, la génération nouvelle ignorerait peut-être le nom de celui qui fut l¿ami le plus constant de M. Lainé, et que M. Cousin appelle son maître.Il y a près de trente ans que l¿école éclectique a été fondée. Les cours de M. Royer-Collard l¿établirent dès l¿abord avec autorité dans le monde scientifique et littéraire, et depuis, l¿enseignement et les ouvrages de M. Cousin lui ont donné cette importance et cet éclat que ses ennemis mêmes ne songent pas à contester. Qui ne sait de quelle popularité jouissait cette école sous les dernières années de la restauration, et de quelles attaques cette popularité fut bientôt suivie ?"

In this memoir, Florence Klein keeps her hat on-literally-as a female Philadelphia stockbroker, real estate developer, and pioneer in helping elders. With courage, purpose, inclusion, and kindness, she helps us become trailblazers too.

Recently I have been able to prove with Autosomal DNA the Lee descendants of General Robert E Lee and his slave Nancy Ruffin, adding their lineage proudly to our Lee's of Virginia descendancy from Col Richard Lee and Anne Constable. I am forever grateful to my Lee cousins who came to me asking for my assistance and trusted me to help resolve this rumor and prove up the truth. For hundreds of years, the Lees of Virginia descendants of Col. Richard Lee and Anne Constable have been denied their heritage, denied their birthright by historians and scholars that refuse to allow the truth to be known all because of past speculation that was considered as truths, prejudice and opinions that were published as facts by outdated references that have no proven documentation or bearing on the truth.The denial of what I now call the 'Lees of Virginia Lost Lineages' continues, even in these current times. All done because of false Lee Y-DNA Project claims that are promoted and on the 'majority rule' genealogy sites even though the internet has opened new frontiers of knowledge, as Federal Census records and documentation that were previously blocked from our view are now accessible - including birth, marriage, and death publications - making it more possible than ever to prove the existence of these lineages. We Lee descendants do live on - through the thousands of GEDCOMs and family tree files available on genealogy sites worldwide, through passed on family oral histories, updated public use of DNA matching and 'family finder' DNA tools - and even though the facts are there, the denial of proud Lee descendants goes on.This is where I have focused my genealogy studies and research for many decades on righting these wrongs for my Lee cousins from these various lees of Virginia lines. I seek out the truth on our Lee genealogy and ancestry, and now with DNA, confirm these lines not only to help clarify and promote the truth but to encourage recording our lineages for our future generations.I have always been met with resistance regardless of how many facts I present. All I can do is keep trying to promote the truth as it is the right thing to do for all of us concerned. For me this is my conscience effort to right the egregious wrong doings done to our Lee history and ancestry for there are hundreds, if not thousands of Lees of Virginia cousins that have been denied their family truths. This is not one line that has been disconnected, but many. We all know who we are and from where we come from, we all know the truth, and our truth should not be considered offensive, and in telling these truths should not be considered being antagonistic or creating drama. It is just telling the truth about who we all are, regardless of the pressure on us to ignore the facts.I just wanted you all to know what I am about and my 'agenda'. This is no secret; I am very transparent about my belief in righting the wrongs. This is not about me, what I have and will continue to do, but it is about US. All of us from every race, religion, background. As a genealogist, with integrity, I just see and report the facts as I find them as our shared ancestry, blood, and DNA, is our evidence we that are related and exist.Thank you, Jacqueli Finley

An anthology of stories which capture everyday life, with writings from the twelfth grade to those inspired by present day experiences, all with an underlying theme of God's blessings.Themes range from loss, illness, healing, humor, depression, and some works of poetry.The closing story, "Dust Off," is a moving look back at the heroes of Vietnam-US Army Huey helicopter pilots who risked their lives time after time to save the lives of others.Each entry in the book includes photos of the author's roses which bless the author's gardens with God's perfect design.Without God's help this book would not have made it to publication to share the "good, the bad, and the ugly" moments of life.

" Au début de cette étude, j¿adresse mes remerciements affectueux à ma fidèle collaboratrice, ma s¿ur, et à mon ami Kalidâs Nâg, dont le grand savoir et l¿infatigable obligeance ont guidé mes pas dans la forêt de la pensée hindoue.Je remercie égaiement l¿éditeur S. Ganesan, de Madras, qui a mis à ma disposition une grande partie de ses publications."