Stanley Weintraub, Author Dutton Books $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24469-1
It has been 25 years since the last major biography of the dumpy little queen who sat on Britain's throne for 64 years, and in view of the mass of scholarly excavating recently done on her, another seems due. Weintraub, noted biographer of Bernard...
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Stanley Weintraub. ELT, $30 (404p) ISBN 978-0-944318-79-9
This posthumously published work from biographer and historian Weintraub (1929–2010) proves a superb blend of personal and scholarly recollections. Drawing on “files going back to my curious birth certificate and my first-grade report card,” he...
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Stanley Weintraub. Da Capo, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-306-82113-4
Weintraub, a historian and bestselling author (11 Days in December), dissects Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic fourth and last presidential campaign in 1944. Republican kingmakers believed a frail Roosevelt was ripe for defeat and ran a ticket of...
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Stanley Weintraub. Da Capo, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-306-82061-8
A minor genre, the day-by-day chronicle, receives a fine addition as veteran historian Weintraub (15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, etc.) devotes a chapter each to the last 10 days of 1941 plus New Year’s Day. He describes the Wehrmacht’s...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Plume Books $16.95 (752p) ISBN 978-0-452-27063-3
This history by the author of Long Day's Jourey Into War, encompasses bloody battles in the Pacific, the Potsdam Conference, the successful testing of an atomic bomb at Almogordo, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Oct.)
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Dutton Books $35 (752p) ISBN 978-0-525-93687-9
In an action-packed narrative, Weintraub (Disraeli) describes the portentous 30 final days of WWII. The Germans had already surrendered and the Japanese, facing an unconditional-surrender ultimatum, stoically prepared to resist an Allied invasion...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Dutton Books $30 (736p) ISBN 978-0-525-93668-8
Perceived by his well-born contemporaries as an outsider and discriminated against as a Jew, despite his Anglican conversion at age 12, Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) could not escape his origins, so ``he made the most of them, with an authentic...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Plume Books $15 (720p) ISBN 978-0-452-26917-0
Weintraub's ``long day'' is essentially the weekend in 1941 that included Pearl Harbor Sunday; with consummate skill he weaves together anecdotal material from around the world to describe events in that momentous span of time. BOMC and History Book
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Dutton Books $26.95 (720p) ISBN 978-0-525-93344-1
Weintraub's ``long day'' is essentially the weekend in 1941 that included Pearl Harbor Sunday. With consummate skill he weaves together anecdotal material from around the world to describe events in that momentous span of time. He includes narrative
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Plume Books $12.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-525-48432-5
``New material, superb scholarship, human and artistic insights will probably establish Weintraub's elegant biography of James McNeill Whistler as definitive,'' said PW , praising this treatment of the artist who emerges here as a difficult person...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author . Free Press $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8710-4
The Battle of the Bulge doesn't quite fit the epic mold it's often cast in—bloody, yes, but lacking in strategic consequence, with no one but Hitler doubting the Allied victory. That the carnage spoiled Christmas time is the slender...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Simon & Schuster Audio $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-0535-2
In this engrossing work, Weintraub (The Stillness Heard Round the World) portrays Douglas MacArthur as a man who distinguishes himself far more in political rhetoric and strategies than the military plans he lays for his troops in Korea. Though...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Free Press $27.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-83419-1
Weintraub's popular military histories string together firsthand reportage and testimony to create compulsively readable, blow-by-blow accounts of key events. His latest covers the early Korean War, from June 1950 to April 1951, when Truman removed...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Free Press $27.5 (464p) ISBN 978-0-684-83486-3
Queen Victoria would doubtless have been delighted by this biography of her adored husband, after the implications of the title had evoked the royal scowl. Prolific biographer Weintraub writes that he learned to respect Victoria's prince consort so...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author Plume Books $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-452-28367-1
Popular historian Weintraub (MacArthur's War, etc.), emeritus professor of arts and humanities at Penn State, tackles a sober subject from WWI, when amid the millions of casualties in the obscene carnage of trench war, a mutual agreement arose for a
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Stanley Weintraub, Author . Free Press $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2687-5
Did America actually win the battle for its freedom in the Revolutionary War? Or did Britain—divided internally over whether to fight the war—simply fail to summon all its might to defeat the colonists? In this brilliant and provocative...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author . Free Press $25 (205p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4654-5
Lord Byron once called George Washington the "Cincinnatus of the West," and Weintraub's compelling account also compares the modern general to the ancient military leader who longed to return to his plow. Washington, weary after eight...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author . Free Press $27.50 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2686-8
Weintraub, biographer of Queen Victoria and Benjamin Disraeli, knows the Victorian world well, and here he profiles one of its oddly (given their Jewishness and British anti-Semitism) quintessential couples. Lionel Rothschild, scion of the British...
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Stanley Weintraub, Author . Free Press $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-684-87281-0
Popular historian Weintraub (MacArthur's War, etc.), emeritus professor of arts and humanities at Penn State, tackles a sober subject from WWI, when amid the millions of casualties in the obscene carnage of trench war, a mutual agreement arose...
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