by B.G. Deshmukh (2004)
Service memoirs of Bhalchandra Gopal Deshmukh, b. 1929, a former Indian cabinet secretary; includes autobiographical references.
[by] Marie Brookter, with Jean Curtis
Daughter of tenant farmers in rural Louisiana, Marie Brookter rose to become a University of Chicago graduate, a campaign worker for Mayor Richard M. Daley, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, a television producer and a civil rights activist.
Daniel Coit Gilman
A Virginia veteran of the Revolutionary War who was elected to the new U.S. Senate in 1790 and later served as Secretaries of War and State prior to becoming U.S. President (1817-1825). “A short, simple account of the most important events in Monroe’s life. Contains a thorough bibliography of Monroe and the Monroe doctrine.” — A.L.A. Catalog 1926
Erin Condit
Traces the lives of the man who served as president of Haiti from 1957 to 1971 and his son who succeeded him as president until his overthrow in 1986.
Sybil Downing and Robert E. Smith
Thomas McDonald Patterson, described by contemporaries as the most prominent figure in Colorado history, achieved a degree of political influence, professional fame, and financial success that makes his relative obscurity a mystery. As the acknowledged leader of the Democratic party from 1876 to 1892, he raised the party's respectability. By engineering a fusion of silver Democrats and populists to challenge Republican dominance, he brought about an effective two-party system. In Patterson's lengthy career he was instrumental in Colorado's quest for statehood, served as territorial delegate to Congress, was the first Democratic U.S. congressman, and later a U.S. senator. As owner and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Times, Patterson supported many unpopular causes, among them organized labor. In defending freedom of the press, he survived serious boycotts by large advertisers and a contempt citation by the Colorado Supreme Court. Infuriated by election swindles, Patterson worked with other progressive reformers to curtail corruption in municipal and state government, including the Democratic machine of mayor Robert Speer.