New Releases by Ralph G. Martin

Offers a study of the Kennedy men, describing how the fiercely ambitious, dictatorial patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., shaped the destinies of his four sons.

Biographies of one of America''s most famous couples. Includes information on their public and private lives.

If she had been simply the mother of Winston Churchill, her place in history would havd been assured. But the Brooklyn-born Jennie was also the most fascinatng, desirable woman of her age, the toast and the scandal of two continents throughout her life. The national bestseller''s first-time appearance in two beautiful trade paperback volumes. Black-and-white photographs.

The author concentrates on Golda Meir''s romantic side as he traces her life, from her impoverished childhood in the 1890s in Russia to her new life in Palestine in the 1940s.

Tells the story behind the fairy tale of the "greatest royal romance of our century", between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

"Revealing, sympathetic, shocking." The Boston Globe The National Bestseller, the portrait of one of the most best loved and most hated presidents in American history, whose appetites for power and sex were equally consuming, and who is more controversial in death than he ever was alive.

ISBN 067122557X LCCN 7910752.

A biography of the "common man" who became President when Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in the midst of World War II.

She was the mother of Winston Churchill, but also a provocative and desirable woman. From her Brooklyn roots to the very heights of British society and power, Jennie was the guiding force behind her husband, Lord Randolph, shaping him into one of the most important men in the British Empire.

Story of political power in America told through biographies of bosses including M. Hanna of Cleveland, J. Curley of Boston, E. Crump of Memphis and others.

Investigation of political maneuvering in U.S. presidential elections presented through studies of the national conventions of 1900, 1912, 1920, 1932 and 1956.

A simple introduction to the life of the blind and deaf woman who changed the world''s opinions about disabilities such as her own.