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James C. Humes
As a skilled historian, Churchill didn’t need a crystal ball to tell the future. He studied patterns of the past which led to his eerily accurate forecasts. This title documents…
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A study of American political history through the prism of selected presidential addresses. It reveals how presidents used major addresses to give a theme for their administration, to introduce history-making…
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Interweaving vignettes that capture Nixon’s skills as a strategist and negotiator of foreign policy, a former White House speech writer illuminates the essential rules that brought Nixon success and shows…
An accessible book about the extraordinary partnership of two men whose lives would intersect during the century’s most harrowing days. Readers will discover the similar events that shaped Dwight Eisenhower…
Citizen Shakespeare is a biography of Shakespeare that reveals the influence and interplay of English history on Shakespeare’s plays.
James C Humes
In Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest…
In this book, James C. Humes candidly accounts all the famous people he has met over the past fifty years, including Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Kennedy, and Truman…
One of the most charismatic and fascinating figures of the 20th century, Winston Churchill was a prolific writer, masterful orator, and consummate wit. In The Wit and Wisdom of Winston…
Presents tips for effective public speaking and presentations with techniques used by such historical figures as Winston Churchill, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin.
Confidant and wordsmith to five presidents, noted historian and language professor James Humes tells how and why presidential speeches have marked milestones in our nation’s history, from Washington through Obama…
James C. Humes,Jarvis D. Ryals
This book shares the observations made in 1998 by Chinese Foreign Service experts, who had planned meetings of President Nixon with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, during interviews by the…
James C. Hazlett,Edwin Olmstead,M. Hume Parks
Presenting a survey, this title includes photographs and diagrams of the field artillery used by both sides in the Civil War.
This book considers the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape of higher education and serves as a foundational…
The Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project is providing the first critical edition of all the Dead Sea Scrolls which are not copies of books in the Hebrew Bible…
