Containing authentic biographies of New Yorkers who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement including sketches of eve
This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 184
Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's
