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The Recovery of Palestine, 1917: Jerusalem for Christmas

Stanley Weintraub

By mid-1917, with the world war going badly on all fronts, and casualties burgeoning, Prime Minister David Lloyd George met with General Edmund Allenby, fresh from France. Lloyd George wanted…

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15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century

Stanley Weintraub

Weintraub details the sweeping drama of three of Americas greatest five-star generals–Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Marshall–who led the U.S. to victory in World War II, and who shaped the following decades…

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Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria’s Court: American Encounters with Victoria and Albert

Stanley Weintraub

Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria’s day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British…

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The Recovery of Palestine, 1917: Jerusalem for Christmas

Stanley Weintraub

By mid-1917, with the world war going badly on all fronts, and casualties burgeoning, Prime Minister David Lloyd George met with General Edmund Allenby, fresh from France. Lloyd George wanted…

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Long Day’s Journey into War: Pearl Harbor and a World at War-December 7, 1941

Stanley Weintraub

Dramatic hour-by-hour chronicle of the whirlwind events sweeping the world on the calendar day that may be the most momentous of the twentieth century.

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Charlotte and Lionel

Stanley Weintraub

He was 27 and she just 16 when they met. An arranged marriage of first cousins, joining two branches of Europe’s most powerful banking firm. Love and money were the…

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Who’s Afraid of Bernard Shaw?: Some Personalities in Shaw’s Plays

Stanley Weintraub

People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. He turned Beatrice Webb into a witchlike virago in The Millionairess, Winston Churchill into…

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General Washington’s Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783

Stanley Weintraub

One of America’s greatest Christmas stories and also one of its very first – from the period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution…

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MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero

Stanley Weintraub

On the 50th anniversary of the Korean War comes a devastating condemnation of the once-great general whose 11 months of leadership of the conflict brought America to the brink of…

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Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce Of 1914

Stanley Weintraub

The moving and inspiring story of one of history’s most powerful yet forgotten Christmas stories: the spontaneous 1914 Christmas truce.

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Whistler: A Biography

Stanley Weintraub

He was the most notorious and misunderstood American artist of his time, and also the most influential. To this day James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is one of the most…

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Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR’s Introduction to War, Politics, and Life

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From an acclaimed historian, the first modern exploration of the formative years (1913-1920) in FDR’s public career, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I

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Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941

Stanley Weintraub

Preeminent historian Stanley Weintraub reveals the story behind one of the most remarkable holiday seasons in American history- December 1941- when the country, bracing itself for war, turned to the…

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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War

Stanley Weintraub

In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season- the epic story of the 1950…

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Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Dramatists Since World War II

The postwar theater in Britain has taken revolutionary steps, offering a wide spectrum of new drama ranging from Harold Pinters absurdist dramas to Alan Ayckbourns domestic comedies. Many playwrights from…

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Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern British Dramatists, 1900-45

The 20th century brought Britain once again to the forefront in world drama. Not since Shakespeares time had Britain produced such an astounding group of talented playwrights. The names of…

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11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944

Stanley Weintraub

It was a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort to the Allied soldiers trying to stop the Nazis from retaking Belgium in one…

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Dear Young Friend: The Letters of American Presidents to Children

Stanley Weintraub,Rodelle Weintraub

Just a few of the words of presidential wisdom found in Dear Young Friend:

I rejoice that you have learnt to write,…for as this is done with a goosequill, you…

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Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse

Stanley Weintraub (Pennsylvania State University)

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Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert

Stanley Weintraub (Pennsylvania State University)

Stanley Weintraub, biographer of Queen Victoria and other major figures of her era, here unveils for the first time the largely hidden role of Prince Albert, establishing him as one…

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Iron Tears: America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire: 1775-1783

Stanley Weintraub (Pennsylvania State University)

A startling new history of the Revolutionary War, told from the perspectives of both the colonists and the colonizers. For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War…

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Temporary Alien Workers In The United States: Designing Policy From Fact And Opinion

Sidney Weintraub,Stanley R Ross

This book deals with the theory and practice of using foreign temporary workers and its impact on the labor market in U.S., the foreign policy implications of a legal U.S…

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Temporary Alien Workers In The United States: Designing Policy From Fact And Opinion

Sidney Weintraub,Stanley R Ross

This book deals with the theory and practice of using foreign temporary workers and its impact on the labor market in U.S., the foreign policy implications of a legal U.S…

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Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw

Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw

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The Portable Oscar Wilde: Revised Edition

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde’s prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence.

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The Playwright and the Pirate: A Correspondence

George Bernard Shaw,Frank Harris

Never quite respectable, Harris had been tolerated – even courted – as an amiable vulgarian when he was a rising star.

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Man and Superman

George Bernard Shaw

Explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society, and the author’s theory of Creative Evolution. This title intends to expose the eternal struggle between the sexes.

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