Biography & Memoir
Paine
Paperback
“Thomas Paine, a singularly injudicious man, requires an exceptionally judicious biographer, and in Mr. Hawke he has at last got one. . . . An absorbing narrative that moves briskly through two revolutions and three countries.” —The New Yorker
The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
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The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.
Roger Williams: The Church and the State
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An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state.
The Life of John Maynard Keynes
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The Life of John Maynard Keynes traces the life and career of the famous English economist and evaluates his contribution to modern economic policy...
Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History
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This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.