About the Book

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent Lives

Michael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the most successful military memoirs in American literature, and is today remembered as a brilliant general but a failed president.

Paul Johnson gives us his concise portrait of the great founding American, George Washington, in a brilliant, sharply etched portrait that is full of surprising insights. Washington is seen as one of the most important authors of the Constitution, in addition to his pivotal leadership of the Revolutionary War and a magisterial executive in the formative years of the new United States.

Christopher Hitchens delves into the biographical subject of Thomas Jefferson —Thomas Jefferson did not “invent” or “dream” America: he more or less designed and built it. The design and the building both outstripped, and fell short of, the “vision”. Hitchens proposes that we dwell within this architecture of the practical and the ideal, and we are not the only ones to notice the compromise.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780061173417
• ISBN 10: 006117341X
• Imprint: HarperAudio
• On Sale: 04/04/2006
• List Price:32.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State

James Atlas

Biography

James Atlas has been an editor for the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times Magazine and a staff writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic. He is the founder of Atlas Books and the general editor of the Eminent Lives series. His other books include Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, Bellow: A Biography, and a novel, The Great Pretender. He lives with his wife and two children in New York City.

Michael Korda

Biography

Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. Grant, Ike, Hero, and Charmed Lives. Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Dutchess County, New York.

Paul Johnson

Biography

Paul Johnson is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities. He regularly writes book reviews for several UK magazines and newspapers, such as the Literary Review and The Spectator, and he lectures around the world. He lives in London, England.

Christopher Hitchens

Biography

Christopher Hitchens was the author of numerous books, including the controversial international bestseller God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Other Works by Christopher Hitchens

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  The Best American Essays 2010

  By Christopher Hitchens

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  Thomas Jefferson

  By Christopher Hitchens

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  Eminent Lives: The Presidents Collection

  By Christopher Hitchens