Category: Biography

Charles A. Lindbergh astounded the world on May 21, 1927, with his successful solo flight from New York to Paris in "The Spirit of St. Louis." Upon his return to the United States, he received an unprecedented welcome and was regarded as a hero to a generation of Americans who looked to the skies as a field of promise and progress. Lindbergh has been the subject of scrutiny and controversy ever since.Reflecting America's faith in technological advancement, Lindbergh saw "The Spirit of St. Louis" as "a lens focused on the future, a forerunner of mechanisms that would conquer time and space....
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Luce and His Empire

By: W. A Swanberg

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1972

Seller ID: 295222

ISBN: 0684125927

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

By: Wall, Elissa, Pulitzer, Lisa

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Morrow: May 2008

Seller ID: 342273

ISBN: 0061628018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and the lengths to which Jeffs went in order to control the sect's women. Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells the incredible and inspirational story of how she emerged from the confines of the Fu...
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The Uneasy Chair, A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

By: Wallace Earle Stegner

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1974

Seller ID: 265186

ISBN: 0385078846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Uneasy Chair, A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

By: Wallace Earle Stegner

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1974

Seller ID: 281791

ISBN: 0385078846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Audition: A Memoir

By: Walters, Barbara

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: May 2008

Seller ID: 240381

ISBN: 030726646X

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package.""And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that "whole package," in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. ...
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A Hand to Guide Me

By: Washington, Denzel

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Meredith Books: October 2006

Seller ID: 328457

ISBN: 0696230496

Condition: Used - Very Good

In his debut as an author, Denzel Washington shares his personal story of the mentors who helped guide his life.Washington pens the introduction for the stories of more than 70 of America's leading personalities in theatre, sports, business, and politics as they tell their life-changing stories of mentorship.Contributors include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Antwone Fisher, Bonnie Raitt, Cal Ripken, Alex Rodriguez, Dick Vitale, Whoopie Goldberg and more.A portion of the book's proceeds benefit 4.5 million children currently involved in the "Boys & Girls Clubs of America,"
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Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)

By: Wells, H. G.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Macmillan & Co: October 1934

Seller ID: 341161

ISBN: B000OO16CS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Harlan Hubbard, Life and Work

By: Wendell Berry

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Pantheon: March 1992

Seller ID: 304247

ISBN: 0679738584

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Lois Wilson Story: When Love Is Not Enough

By: William G. Borchert

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hazelden Publishing: January 2008

Seller ID: 271709

ISBN: 1592855989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Available for the first time in paperback, the biography of one of the recovery movement's most influential figures: Lois Burnham Wilson, creator of Al-Anon and wife of AA cofounder Bill W.Acclaimed author and screenwriter William G. Borchert explores the life and times of Lois Burnham Wilson, the spirited creator of Al-Anon and wife of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson. From her privileged childhood in turn-of-the-century New York City to her socialite status as the 'Wall Street Wife' of the charismatic Bill in the roaring '20s to the couple's audacious crosscountry motorc...
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William Goyen: Selected Letters from a Writerâ€™s Life

By: William Goyen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of Texas Press: March 1995

Seller ID: 251862

ISBN: 0292727739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu in which to create. These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America. A prolific correspondent, Goyen wrote regularly to friends, family, editors, and other writers. Among the letters selected here are those to such majo...
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Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand

By: William J. Mann

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: October 2012

Seller ID: 335377

ISBN: 0547368925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The best-selling biographer of Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor tells the electrifying story of how Barbra Streisand transformed herself into the greatest star of her era, etching "an indelible portrait of the artist as a young woman" ("Publishers Weekly"). In 1960, she was a seventeen-year-old Brooklyn kid with plenty of talent but no connections and certainly no money; her mother brought her soup to make sure she stayed fed as she took acting classes and scraped out a living. Just four years later, Barbra Streisand was the top-selling female recording artist in America and the star...
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

By: William Kalush, Larry Sloman

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atria Books: October 2007

Seller ID: 303928

ISBN: 0743272080

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy, and a pernicious plot to subvert his legacy. "The Secret Life of Houdini" traces the arc of the master m...
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The Court Years: 1939 to 1975

By: William O. Douglas

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Random House: September 1980

Seller ID: 265193

ISBN: 0394492404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

My Three Fathers: And the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary Alsop

By: William S. Patten

Price: $7.95

Publisher: PublicAffairs: June 2008

Seller ID: 331160

ISBN: 1586485555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bill Patten grew up in the heart of privileged society to American parents--a debutante mother, a diplomatic father--stationed in Europe. Weekends away from his English boarding school were often spent at the regal country estates of important policy makers and historical figures of the mid-twentieth century. When Bill was twelve years old, his father, William Patten, died, and his mother remarried the renowned columnist Joe Alsop. Patten was swept into Washington during the Kennedy years, where he bore witness to his stepfather's legendary power-brokering, and watched a very different father ...
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From Alcatraz to the White House: An Autobiography

By: Williams, Nathan Glenn

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Willjoy Publishing: January 1991

Seller ID: 344467

ISBN: 0963007009

Condition: Used - Like New

Saint Augustine: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives)

By: Wills, Garry

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Viking Adult: June 1999

Seller ID: 343333

ISBN: 0670886106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God.Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions -- among them those regarding his early sexual excesses. He...
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Wodehouse: A Life

By: Wodehouse

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: November 2005

Seller ID: 341519

ISBN: 0393327515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salman Rushdie, John le Carre, and Seamus Heaney. Wodehouse had an extraordinary Broadway career, working with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and even dared to "re"write Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" for the London stage. Robert McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of ...
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Yeager: An Autobiography

By: Yeager, Chuck, Janos, Leo

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Bantam: June 1985

Seller ID: 340982

ISBN: 0553050931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff. Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied Fran...
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Category: Biography