Roy Morris

In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on two of America's most towering politicians and the intense personal rivalry that transformed both them and the nation they sought to lead in the dark days leading up to the Civil War. For the better part of two decades, Stephen Douglas was the most famous and controversial politician in the United States, a veritable "steam engine in britches." Abraham...

"A focused biography, this book details the celebrated author and expatriate Gertrude Stein in her triumphant homecoming to America in 1934, following the surprise success of her disguised memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, the previous year. The book shows how Stein's first visit to America in thirty years renewed her emotional and artistic connection to her homeland"--