LIVES of ENGLAND'S MONARCHS

The Story of Our American English Heritage

by H. E. Lehman


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 09/02/2005

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 504
ISBN : 9781418496920

About the Book

This informative entertaining read tells, with wit and understanding, England’s history through lives of its reigning monarchs. Anecdotal narrative is used to bring the cavalcade of monarchs to life in the reader’s mind. They strut again in starring rôles they acted out in historic time. The book is recommended to general adult readers and students with interests on foundations for American law and government. Valuable genealogical tables, explanatory digressions, select bibliography, and chapter abstracts make the significance of historical events easily understood and memorable. The book is a two millennium-long factual chronicle of England’s changing cultures and customs, of controversies and wars, of heresies and changing faith. This narrative is an entertaining timeless general resource on English American history. 


About the Author

H. Eugene Lehman, a native of Kentucky, received a BA degree from Maryville College, Tennessee; an MA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; a Ph.D. from Stanford University; did post-Doctoral studies at Universities of Bern, Switzerland, and Naples, Italy; and for a year was exchange professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. He taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for four decades, and twice received awards for excellence in teaching. He authored several college texts, wrote scholarly papers on a variety of topics, and was member-officer in several scholarly societies. His lifetime of scholarship and teaching is reflected in ability to explain even the most complex issues with clarity and whimsical perception.