DeYoung, Karen

Summary: A biography of the soldier-statesman follow's Colin Powell's life from his Jamaican roots and youth in the Bronx, through his decorated career in the Army and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to his role as Secretary of State and departure from the post.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006

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Unger, Harlow G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.04 UNG

Melville, Doug

Summary: "In Invisible Generals, Melville shares his quest to rediscover his family’s story across five generations, from post-Civil War America to modern day Asia and Europe. In life, the Davises were denied the recognition and compensation they’d earned, but through his journey, Melville uncovers something greater: that dedication and self-sacrifice can move proverbial mountains—even in a world...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing/Atria 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MEL

Davis, William C.

Summary: Profiles the lives of these two great Civil War commanders who came from vastly different backgrounds, exploring their personalities, their characters, their ethical and moral compasses, and their political and military worlds.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 DAV

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWARZKOPF, H. NORMAN SCH

Simpson, Brooks D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres Simpson

Smith, Jean Edward.

Summary: A peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D SMI

Boot, Max

Summary: A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust. "The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANDSDALE BOO

Eisenhower, John S. D.

Summary: From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as “the first modern general.” Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EIS

Guelzo, Allen C.

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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Forty, George.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arms and Armour 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 FOR

Marcovitz, Hal.

Summary: The life of the Civil War general whose controversial fame rests chiefly on the disaster at the Little Big Horn in 1876.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CUS

Manchester, William

Summary: Biography of one of the most controversial American generals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACARTHUR, DOUGLAS MAN

Bunting, Josiah

Summary: "A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, GEORGE C. BUN

Boykin, Jerry.

Summary: Boykin reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-- and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOYKIN, WILLIAM G BOY

Smith, Gene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1984

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Unger, Debi

Summary: Presents a complete picture of the life of George C. Marshall, from his childhood and military training through his role as chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II and his leadership efforts as Secretary of State in rebuilding post-war Europe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, GEORGE UNG

Cwiklik, Robert

Summary: An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 CWI

Wukovits, John F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EIS

Marszalek, John F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.741 MAR

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHE

Hirshson, Stanley P.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GEORGE, PATTON HIR