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Excerpt from Alfred I. Du Pont, the Family RebelOften for half a century had shaken the Brandywine countryside. The church, too, was constructed to resist these man-made earth quakes, for it stood well Within the zone of danger. On that ac count the duponts had chosen Christ Church as their own place of worship, in return endowing it solidly and without any Show. This prospering, prolific and insular family liked the things with which it had t...

Excerpt from Alfred I. Du Pont, the Family RebelOften for half a century had shaken the Brandywine countryside. The church, too, was constructed to resist these man-made earth quakes, for it stood well Within the zone of danger. On that ac count the duponts had chosen Christ Church as their own place of worship, in return endowing it solidly and without any Show. This prospering, prolific and insular family liked the things with which it had t...

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Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and was the founder of the Democratic Party. This biography chronicles his family's humble beginnings from their arrival in the United States to Andrew Jackson's retirement from public life. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson served in Congress and gained fame as a general in the United Stat...

A biography of one of America's most successful immigrants. After arriving in America in 1846, Irish-born William R. Grace worked his way up from ordinary seaman to become master of a vast commercial empire, reformer of the Democratic Party and New York City's first Catholic mayor.

This memoir by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner tells of life on the southern plains in the 1890s and early in this century. "A delightfully human and intimate account of an Oklahoma boyhood, THE CHEROKEE STRIP has enough color of Indians, cowboys, bad men, and peace officers for those who like a little gun smoke, but will also ring true to those who remember the small-farm, small-town Oklahoma before oil had been found under the Short Gra...

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 quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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 quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characters--with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen. . . . In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers, in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." --from the introduction by He...