WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging' AKALAWhat would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for?On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mot...

This collection, the first of several projected volumes, brings together some of the best previously published essays on Confederate commanders in the Western Theater. Including articles by such distinguished historians as Grady McWhiney, Charles P. Roland, T. Harry Williams, Frank E. Vandiver, Archer Jones, and Edwin C. Bearss, many of these pieces have only appeared in academic journals, and most have long been out of print. In resurrecting them, this volume introduces a new generation o...

Far removed from the main centers of commerce and population, and thus remote from the priorities of Confederate political leaders in the East, the Trans-Mississippi Theater experienced a different sort of war during America’s great fratricidal conflict of 1861–1865. Not only was its distance from Richmond a distinguishing factor, but it was also a theater where the Union army and navy gained a foothold far sooner than elsewhere in the South, first in Missouri and then in Louisiana and the...

Many students of the Civil War have concluded that the overstudied conflict in the Eastern Theater resulted only in an unwinnable stalemate. For that reason they are now looking to the West for more precise explanations of the Confederates’ failure to win independence. To editors Lawrence Hewitt and Arthur Bergeron, the answers lie with the generals who waged a calamitous war that stretched across nine states and left a long trail of bloody battlefields, surrendered fortresses, burned citi...

Blood, betrayal, and the birth of a colony. For a century, the Carolina frontier trembled under the thunder of war drums and the crack of musket fire as European settlers and Native American nations clashed in a brutal struggle that would reshape the American landscape forever. Lawrence Lee's gripping historical account plunges readers into the heart of North Carolina's most violent and transformative era, where survival demanded courage, cunning, and an iron will to endure unimaginable ha...

Like its predecessors, the fourth and final volume of Confederate Generals in the Western Theater is an invaluable contribution to the historiography of a poorly understood theater of war, presenting new interpretations of major figures while bringing to light both the triumphs and failures of lesser-known generals. Its cutting-edge scholarship offers further grounding for the editors’ contention that the South’s bid for independence was lost on its western battlefields and that t...

A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals, and a biography of Huey Long that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but he also mentored generations of students who became distinguished historians in their own right. In this collection, ten of those former students, along with one author greatly inspired by Williams’s example, offer incisive e...

The American Civil War was won and lost on its western battlefields, but accounts of triumphant Union generals such as Grant and Sherman leave half of the story untold. In the third volume of Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, editors Lawrence Hewitt and Arthur Bergeron bring together ten more never-before-published essays filled with new, penetrating insights into the key question of why the Rebel high command in the West could not match the performance of Robert E. Lee...

Medicare wasn't built for your family. This book is.Most Medicare books are written for average seniors in standard situations. But if you're the adult child of immigrant parents, you already know your situation isn't standard - and the generic advice in those books doesn't solve the problems your family actually faces.You're the one making the calls. Translating the letters. Sitting on hold. Worrying whether one wrong decision will quietly cost your parents thousands of do...

Some people are born with a special purpose in life. Betrayal, heartbreak, evil, and death are just challenges for them. They are born as warriors with an undying spirit. In The Warrior's Undying Spirit, author Lawrence Johnson weaves a tale of resilience and determination. This gripping novel follows the journey of those destined to face adversity head-on, showcasing their strength and unwavering resolve. Written to fulfill Johnson's dream of bringing an original story to life, this b...

Through a deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Lee Lawrence seamlessly combines historical fact with his dramatic first-hand experiences of racial injustice to present vivid stories - from the Somali sailor who was wrongly convicted of murder in Cardiff in 1952 to the assault on professional footballer Dalian Atkinson and from the hounding of Notting Hill's Mangrove Club to Black Lives Matter - that chronicle how Britain's Black community has been mistreated.Lee Lawrence wa...

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the WayFirst published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his ...