On 22 March 2020, seven days into lockdown Cyril Duff started an isolation diary on Facebook. The aim was to cheer up family and friends during a difficult period. They shared it with their fami...
"The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son" offers an intimate and profound glimpse into the extraordinary mind and life of one of history's most influential figures, John D. Rockefeller, ...
Ever felt like a challenge? For juggler and comedian, Jon Udry, the ABC Tour - 26 letters, 26 shows - seems the perfect way to shake things up.What started as a silly idea he believed w...
Barbara Washburn never set out to become a mountaineering pioneer, but she wasn't content to be a stay-at-home wife, either. In 1947, defying social convention, Washburn became the first woman to c...
Henry Bibby has been a winner his entire life. From three consecutive NCAA men's championships as the point guard for legendary Coach John Wooden's UCLA Bruins, to a contributor off the bench fo...
"When I was about two and one-half years old ... I decided to take a walk by myself." Thus a precocious (and peculiarly mishap-prone) little boy, known to his loved ones as Freckles, raises an a...
I grew up in the forties and fifties, when the news was local. We didn't know much about what was going on outside our town for two or three days. There was no multimedia, and today's front-page...
State Mother Alice Marshall Jackson born August 17, 1908, to October 15, 2005. In her 97 years on God's green earth:
She fought a good ; She finished her course; She kept the faith; She lives on th...
Desperate to find respite from her father's verbal abuse, his various affairs, and her step-mother's psychological torment, Gina spent hours doing Jane Fonda's workouts, smoked cigarettes instea...
Living beyond the boundaries of prescribed inferiority requires an attitude of audacity and a determined code of conduct. Still some African-Americans defy societal limitations and built lives o...
Living beyond the boundaries of prescribed inferiority requires an attitude of audacity and a determined code of conduct. Still some African-Americans defy societal limitations and built lives o...
Facsimile of 1933 Edition. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is written by Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. In 1998, Modern...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is Franklin's unfinished book on his own life, which he wrote from 1771 to 1790. It has become one of the most famous and influential autobiographies e...
American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards' Almanack, helped found the University of Pe...
One of the most respected personages in Native American history, BLACK HAWK (1767-1838), Sauk war chief of the Native American tribe in Illinois, was already a renowned name in the early 1800s, hav...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high ...