Draws on extensive archival material to portray FDR's youth and the forces and people that shaped his personality

Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

Looks at Roosevelt's career as a young lawyer, his marriage to Eleanor, and his efforts to return to politics after his bout with polio

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Historical

Harper&Row

A collection of profiles of forty men and women whose accomplishments have altered history describes such well-known figures as Hemingway, Twain, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Shirley Temple, and others

American Originals: The Private Worlds of Some Singular Men and Women

Community & Culture

Describes efforts to save the Indian tiger from extinction, and why those efforts seemed doomed to failure

Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters With the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats

Science & Math

Ward, Diane Raines

Biological Sciences

Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882-1905

Perennial

Tiger-Wallahs: Saving the Greatest of the Great Cats

Oxford University Press

For many years historian and screenwriter Geoffrey C. Ward has been visiting the Indian jungles, drawn by their beauty and the mystery and power of the great endangered predator that has always ruled them--the tiger. In this intensely personal book, he combines history, biography and first-hand reporting to evoke the special appeal of India's forests and describes encounters with some of the 'tiger-wallahs' who have struggled against overwhelming odds to save the species from extinction. The remarkable tiger-wallahs covered here are Jim Corbett, the great destroyer of maneaters, who became a still greater conservationist; Billy Arjan Singh, the Spartan farmer who despises hunters and hunting, tried to return a tigress to the wild, and, all alone, carved out a national park; Fateh Singh Rathore, the uninhibited Rajput who cheerfully risked his life defending the jungles in his charge; and Valmik Thapar, the son of New Delhi intellectuals, who began as Fateh's disciple, became an authority in his own right, and now champions a new kind of conservation that may provide the tiger's only hope. An epilogue especially written for this edition brings the story of the tiger and its champions up to date. This evocative and well-illustrated book about a magnificent animal and its ablest defenders, one of the first to document the conflicts that plague efforts to save the species, will interest conservationists, ecologists and wildlife enthusiasts and appeal to a wide general readership.

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world.

The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

History

Burns, Ken

Americas

KNOPF

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