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A fresh look at General Grant's military career in light of his conflicted personality and drinking habits

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This biography of Genet explores the perverse extremes of his life and writing, and separates the fact from the mythology which was fostered by Genet himself. Edmund White has interviewed lovers, friends, publishers and acquaintances, and has drawn from material, from letters (a number published here for the first time) and other original sources.

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*This first full-scale biography of Olmsted in four decades reveals him as a brilliant visionary in politics, civic reform and the abolition movement, as well as his famed redesign of cities.

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First published forty years ago, Gentlemen's Gentlemen gives an insight into the golden age of service - a profession now almost completely lost.

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Few modern British sportsmen have fascinated the public more than Geoff Boycott. In this first comprehensive and balanced account of Boycotts life fully updated to include his battle against cancer award-winning author Leo McKinstry lifts the lid on one of crickets great enigmatic characters.

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Presents a collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. This work describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. It includes a bibliography and a chronology.

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Brings together essays on figures in time geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional, cultural and political geography, on scriptural geography, historical geography and methodology, and on African exploration. These essays engage with the individual's contribution to geography, their works and their lives.

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This book traces the evolution of George Clooney's successful career, from his humble start as a television heartthrob to his current position as one of the most powerful figures in film making today.

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The poet George Crabbe (1754 - 1832), best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, a clergyman, a botanist, and a novelist.

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George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and one of Britain's great novelists. This biography offers insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to her life and writing. It offers an illuminating portrait of her as a woman and a writer.

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Offers a portraint of a greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment. This study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be a civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect.

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'George Sand' (Aurore Dupin, 1804-1876) was France's bestselling writer, rivalled in her time only by Victor Hugo. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel: her long, troubled romance with Chopin was just one of many affairs with well-known figures, but her most desperate love was for a beautiful actress.

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Alabama Governor George Wallace captured the national spotlight in fiery opposition to Civil Rights. But biographer Stephan Lesher suggests Wallace's more lasting significance is that of working class spokesman against the intrusion of "big" government. "The first serious study of the whole of Mr. Wallace's career".--The New York Times Book Review.

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This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties.

This insightful work chronicles the life of George Washington Carver, the renowned African American scientist and teacher.

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This encyclopedia offers an A-Z retrospective of George Washington's life, career, and historical significance, based in large part on Washington's own words and those of his contemporaries.

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This follow-up book to "The Genius of George Wright" contains transcripts of 29 interviews of individuals close to GW, edited lightly for clarity. In addition, the book includes a comprehensive annotated tune list, displaying every song that George Wright recorded for commercial release, listing the album(s) on which a tune appeared, a valuable reference tool for fans of GW's music.

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After a childhood among artists, French migrs and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father's castle in the Highlands. By allowing Georgiana's own voice to be heard through her letters and journals Brenda Niall has brought a legendary colonial figure into authentic vibrant life.