"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and milita
Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. Stephen Vincent Benet said, "There is a monument - and a fine one - to Robert E. Lee at Lexington. But this
These journal entries and fiction pieces paint a picture of a precocious, imaginative young girl growing up in early twentieth century Atlanta, a member of a family that was considered part of the city's 'old guard'. The Mitchell family lived in a sprawli
The world saw only one book by Margaret Mitchell published in her lifetime, the incomparable Gone With the Wind, the most popular novel in American history. Upon her death in 1949, her personal papers, almost all other writing, and even the original types
In Part 2, the American South has lost the Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara has to work hard to build up her life again, but she has no money. The handsome Rhett Butler is rich, but he is soon to be hanged for murder. Then there is Ashley Wilkes. He is married
Le roman et le film les plus populaires de tous les temps. Plus de dix millions d'exemplaires vendus dans le monde. Traduit dans 18 langues. Autant en emporte le vent est une fresque historique, jamais surpassé, sur la société des Etats sudistes et les