Alan Axelrod, Author . Running Press $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7624-1971-5
You don't need superpowers to be an "office Superman," says Axelrod. You just need to prove to co-workers that you're reliable and indispensable. Axelrod (Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Monopoly
) certainly knows a...
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Alan Axelrod. Sterling, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4027-9025-6
The prolific Axelrod (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot) has authored numerous histories of American wars, including the Revolution, the Civil War, and WWII. His latest—an accessible book filled with facts and statistics (albeit without attribution)—resembles a
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Alan Axelrod. Sterling, $22.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8484-2
Prolific business historian and author Axelrod (Winston Churchill, CEO) hits the mark again with the latest in his CEO series, this time examining legendary leader Julius Caesar. Axelrod makes the case that Caesar’s legacy, including his audacious...
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Alan Axelrod, Author Prentice Hall Press $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7352-0307-5
Quick--who was the first person to calculate the size of the Earth? (Eratosthenes in 240 B.C.--and he was surprisingly close to the mark). And whatever is Ohm's Law? (""The cornerstone of electrical science and engineering."") More than 200 great...
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Alan Axelrod, Author Prentice Hall Press $15.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7352-0305-1
Need a quick fix on major events in American history? For readers who want the facts as opposed to the myth of Pocahontas, or who've forgotten the gist of the XYZ Affair or the year of the Montgomery bus boycott, it's all here--200 major events in...
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Alan Axelrod, Author Portfolio $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59184-014-5
In his latest management book, Axelrod (Elizabeth I, CEO; Patton on Leadership; Profiles in Leadership; Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Monopoly) looks at""a revealing model of leadership values, ideas, skills, traits, tactics, and...
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Alan Axelrod, Author Prentice Hall $25 (280p) ISBN 978-0-671-84650-3
To many Americans, ``Indian Wars'' connotes the ongoing battles in the West during the late 19th century. Actually, native North Americans and whites were in conflict from early encounters with Spanish, French, Dutch and English, leading to four...
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Alan Axelrod, Author John Wiley & Sons $40 (550p) ISBN 978-0-471-32797-4
While individually they're not the longest nor the best-remembered wars, conflicts with Native Americans, like the Iroquois-Huron War and the Seminole Wars, make up most of American military engagements. This becomes clear in popular historian...
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Alan Axelrod, Author Prentice Hall Press $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7352-0189-7
Who could possibly offer better leadership lessons than one of the most powerful women in history? Axelrod (Patton on Leadership, etc.) details more than 100 leadership principles based on Queen Elizabeth's style of statesmanship. Having assumed the
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Alan Axelrod, Author Sterling $19.95 (358p) ISBN 978-1-4027-4768-7
Prolific author Axelrod (Elizabeth I, CEO, The Real History of World War II) has an engaging writing style and a good eye for telling incidents, making his 35 ""cautionary tales"" of bad decisions (and their deciders) illuminating and interesting....
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Alan Axelrod, Author Sterling $22.95 (276p) ISBN 978-1-4027-5805-8
In the hands of a lesser writer, this story of Churchill's brilliant career could have been muted by the business-book treatment; fortunately, Churchill's forceful personality takes center stage and the (surprisingly unforced) ""lessons""...
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Alan Axelrod, Author . Palgrave MacMillan $26.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-230-60503-9
In the early 20th century, propaganda had yet to acquire the sinister name it would gain by the Cold War. One of the most important episodes in understanding the relationship between propaganda and American culture is WWI. Many American were not yet
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Alan Axelrod, Author . Sterling $24.95 (371p) ISBN 978-1-4027-4086-2
Prolific author Axelrod (Patton on Leadership
; Elizabeth I, CEO
) tackles the American Revolution in this breezy popular history. Despite the subtitle, this “nonacademic” treatment of the revolution is straightforward, if not...
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Alan Axelrod, Author . Carroll & Graf $26.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-78671-811-5
One of the American Civil War's most horrific events took place on July 30, 1864: the slaughter of thousands of Union troops, including many African-Americans, in a giant pit outside Petersburg, Va. The pit was created as a result of a poorly...
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Alan Axelrod, Author . Globe Pequot/Lyons $24.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-59921-025-4
Prolific bestseller Axelrod (Patton: A Biography
, etc.) examines the evolution of the Marine Corps in this sprightly popular history of the pivotal WWI Battle of Belleau Wood in France. The Marine Corps, founded in the American Revolution, entered...
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Alan Axelrod, Author . Jossey-Bass $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-7879-8238-6
While Osama Bin Laden on Leadership
has not yet turned up, it seems every other historical figure has graced the title of a management self-help book. Veteran business writer Axelrod (Patton on Leadership
) follows the genre's common pattern,...
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Alan Axelrod, Author , foreword by series editor Gen. Wesley K. Clark. Palgrave Macmillan $21.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-4039-7139-5
Gen. George Patton, "a great and flawed figure" who still elicits strong feelings, makes an excellent choice for the initial volume in Palgrave's Great Generals series. Axelrod, a prolific business writer and historian (Patton on...
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Alan Axelrod, Author . Running Press $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7624-1327-0
Money-minded readers who gaze longingly at their Monopoly boards' Broadway and Park Place properties will undoubtedly chuckle over Axelrod's irreverent entrepreneur's guide. The author (Elizabeth I, CEO) here playfully examines how to...
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Alan Axelrod. Abbeville, $27.50 (464) ISBN 978-0-7892-1283-2
In this cogent breakdown of historical and current government waste, Axelrod (Patton on Leadership) depicts the U.S., with a national debt of over $19 trillion, as perched on a tipping point of financial doom. Axelrod cites a study showing that...
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