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Imposture
Lord Byron was the greatest writer and the most notorious, scandalous lover of his age—an irresistible attraction for a sheltered, bookish, and passionate young woman like Eliza Esmond. Eliza believes she’s met Byron on the doorstep of his publisher, and that her dreams have come true when he arranges to meet her in secret. But what if the man she believes to be Byron is someone else—a look-alike named John Polidori, who once toured Europe as Byron’s doctor?
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Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
From reviews of the first edition: "The impact of [Broward's] career upon the Florida political scene is told by Samuel Proctor with a skill that combines suspense and accuracy. . . . A great contribution in the field of Florida history."--Miami Daily News "The first full-dress biography of [a] colorful Florida politician. . . . His name is perpetuated in the county created at the height of the drainage boom for which he was chiefly responsible. But to many Floridians the name of Broward means a daring filibusterer who smuggled guns and guerrillas to Cuba's revolutionaries. That melodramatic chapter of Broward's life is not overlooked by biographer Proctor."-- Miami Herald Now in a new paperback edition, Samuel Proctor's popular biography was first described as "a lusty narrative of a lusty age." Revealing the politics and intrigues of frontier Florida in the period still known as the "Broward Era," Proctor describes the life and liberal administration of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward (1857-1910), elected governor of Florida in 1904. Hailed as chief of the "wool hat" faction in Florida and as a leader of the populist movement in the South and throughout the country, Broward identified with laborers, farmers, and tradesmen and fought bitterly against the railroad magnates, lumber barons, and land pirates who dominated Florida politics after the Civil War. Under his leadership the legislature passed the progressive Buckman Act, which consolidated seven state colleges into two universities at Gainesville and Tallahassee and unified them under a Board of Control, and enacted tax reforms, child labor restrictions, and regulations to prevent the sale of cigarettes to minors. In an effort to turn acres of rich muck into productive farmland, Broward initiated the Everglades drainage project (with the now infamous slogan "Water will run downhill"). Through his life passed such figures as Theodore Roosevelt, inspecting newly rebuilt Jacksonville after the 1901 fire; Carry Nation, waving her Prohibition banner; Gentleman Jim Corbett, defending his heavyweight boxing title in Jacksonville; and Cuban patriots boarding Broward's famous river steamer, The Three Friends. For this work Proctor examined newspaper files and letters and documents held by the Broward family and interviewed several of the governor's political associates and his immediate family, including children, a sister, and his widow (who received the first copy of the book off the press in 1952).Samuel Proctor is distinguished service professor of history at the University of Florida and editor of the Bicentennial Floridiana Facsimile Series (UPF). He is the author of Gator History: A Pictorial History of the University of Florida, Jews of the South: Selected Essays, and Florida a Hundred Years Ago and coeditor of Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period. He is also the longtime editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly.
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Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Prosecutor and Peace Advocate
At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for countless war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was one of the chief prosecutors for one of the largest murder trials in history. This biography of the last living Nuremberg prosecutor traces his life from early childhood growing up as an immigrant in Hell's Kitchen in New York City, to Harvard Law School, to the US Army and Omaha Beach on D-Day, to the Nuremberg Tribunals and beyond. His life has been spent working toward the goal of world peace through law, not war. Part of that goal was realised with the successful formation of the International Criminal Court, which Ferencz was instrumental in establishing. Ferencz, celebrated as an expert in international law, led a remarkable life, and it is chronicled here with his participation.
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Sculptor in Buckskin
Two disparate worlds met in the life of Alexander Phimister Proctor: the art world centered in the eastern United States and the world of the western frontier. Proctor was a remarkable amalgam: a big-game hunter and intrepid explorer who felt at home in Paris or New York, and an academically trained artist who painted and sculpted the characters and wild creatures of the West.This new edition of Proctor's autobiography provides a thorough introduction to a distinctively American artist whose monumental sculptures and statues adorn parks, public buildings, and museums, as well as private homes and businesses across the country. The text, begun in the late 1930s, when Proctor was in his seventies, takes the reader on a far-flung journey from his birth in Ontario and childhood in Denver to his travels as a young man throughout the United States and eventually to Paris.A new selection of more than 125 illustrations - many in full color - includes historical photographs and reproductions of Proctor's sketches, paintings, and sculptures, tracing the development of his magnificent artistry. Here are the trembling fawns, slinking mountain lions, stalwart warriors, and rearing mustangs that made him famous. Art historian Katharine C. Ebner has annotated the autobiography and restored previously unpublished portions of the original manuscript.""What is beauty?"" Proctor asks at the beginning of his narrative. It was a question that resonated throughout his life. Through the words and the work of this remarkable artist, we come to understand his answer.
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