Profiles twenty historically significant women, highlighting their great accomplishments and unique quirks; also includes color caricatures.

"Here is a royal entourage of queens, empresses, prime ministers, presidents, regents, constitutional monarchs, and other women rulers of the world's empires, nations, and tribes. Their readable biographies cover each ruler's victories and defeats, foibles and triumphs, life and times."--BOOK JACKET. "Women Rulers throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide is based on the author's Women Who Ruled. Many entries have been substantially revised, expanded,...

A historical account of Julius Caesar, covering his personal life, political career, assassination, and the Rome of his time.

Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. On May 18, 1860, everyone waited for the results from the Republican National Convention. Lincoln won, Goodwin demonstrates, because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents...

It's a DSA holiday and Wiglaf and his pig, Daisy, are going home with Erica to the Royal Palace. But when they get there, it's a disaster! King Ken has the Pox, and Queen Barb shows up with a Great Healer, who turns out to be a not-so-great wizard. Before you can say ikes-yay!, Kin Ken is speaking Pig Latin. Only Daisy can save the king--but will she?

A biography of Adolf Hitler, based in part on more than one hundred and fifty interviews with people directly involved with his life.

After saving King Aodren with her newfound Channeler powers, Britta only wants to live a peaceful life in her childhood home. Unfortunately, saving the King has created a tether between them she cannot sever, no matter how much she'd like to, and now he's insisting on making her a noble lady.

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house...

An essential account of the Trump presidency draws on interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, diaries, and confidential documents to provide details about Trump's moves as he faced a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.

When Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler--who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil--had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker in Berlin but, half a century later, he has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers tell...