Alan Axelrod

“History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends....

The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects....

The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I audiobook gives you a comprehensive overview of the first global war, from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles....

George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature....

Known by his troops in World War II as "The GI General" because of his close identification with the men under his command, Omar Bradley commanded the U. S. Twelfth Army Group in Europe....

History celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country....

Calling all Dapper Dans and Oomph Girls - take a ride through the American lexicon at its most inventive....

Alan Axelrod is a Business Week best-selling author. A respected authority on business and management topics, he has also written works of historical biography. In Elizabeth I CEO, his varied skills converge to produce an important book that is both informative and entertaining....

Fourteen lessons to instruct, inspire, and encourage....

A journey of exploration through history’s great decisions and those who had the courage to make them....

Alan Axelrod’s penetrating analysis will instruct, inspire, and encourage those who lead business enterprises, large and small....

Using the same engrossing anecdotal format that has proved so popular in Profiles in Audacity, Alan Axelrod now turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making....