William Wallace: The Man and the Myth by Chris BrownRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.4MBOverview: Fully revised and updated by leading Scottish historian Chris Brown, this biography reveals the truth behind the myths about William Wallace William Wallace of Elderslie, younger son of a country knight, came to fame through his active opposition to the aggressive imperialism […]
Bob Burke Series by William F. Brown (5-7)Requirements: epub reader, 3 mbOverview: A native of Chicago, I received a BA from The University of Illinois in History and Russian Area studies, and a Master’s in City Planning. I served as a Company Commander in the US Army in Vietnam and became active in local and […]
Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter by William Wells BrownRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.78 MBOverview: What if Founding Father Thomas Jefferson had an affair with a slave and fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter? Author William Wells Brown uses this as a point of departure for “Clotel, or the President’s Daughter” to examine race relations in 1800s America. […]
Burke’s War by William F. Brown ( Burke #1 )Requirements: .ePUB reader, 455 KBOverview: Like millions of business travelers before him, Bob Burke found himself staring absently out the window of a 767 as it came in to land at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. Unlike all the others before him, however, as the suburban buildings passed […]
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century’s Most Inquiring Mind by Hugh Aldersey-WilliamsRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MBOverview: Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In […]