The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Truman sheds new light on America's second president, chronicling the life and times of Adams's youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his remarkable influence on the b ...
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A definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant traces the life of America's eighteenth president from his uneventful childhood, through his West Point education and extraordinary successes on the battlefield, to his failure in the world of politics.
A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between ...
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