Don Cook

From one of America's longest-serving foreign correspondents, a biography of France's controversial politician and statesman. The first major biography of Charles de Gaulle written from an American perspective, this book offers a compelling assessment of the French army officer, politician, and statesman. Author Don Cook, former bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, delineates de Gaulle's obsession with power and how the military man rose to leadership...

Investigates the American Revolution from the British side, drawing on primary sources to show how Britain, at the height of her power but suffering from internal political strife, made one mistake after another, culminating in the loss of her prized colonies.

On jacket: The birth of the NATO treaty and the dramatic transformation of U.S. foreign policy between 1945 and 1950.

The story follows the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage into the aristocratic Corey family. Silas' morality does not fail him. He loses his money but makes the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical selling of the mills to English settlers....

Fictionalized account of a period in 18th century Algerian and American history when pirates from the Barbary coast pillaged ships for passengers and cargo. The passengers were enslaved for years at a time and their memoirs became the background for romance novels of that same time period.