 | A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest,
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by Penguin Putnam
Paperback
(01 May, 2001)
(52 reviews) 
Customer Review: Lots of fun for royal watchers: Michael Farquhar's "A Treasury of Royal Scandals" will delight inveterate royal watchers! As he sniffs in the introduction, |
 | A Venetian Affair
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by Knopf
Hardcover
(23 September, 2003)
(23 reviews)
Editorial Review: It's hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long, forbidden love affair of the 18th-century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne.Andrea Di Robilant's A Venetian Affair is drawn in part from a cache of letters discovered by the author's father in his ancestral palazzo on the Grand Canal.I |
 | Abigail Adams: An American Woman (2nd Edition)
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by Longman
Paperback
(21 July, 1999)
(5 reviews) 
Customer Review: Adverage Read with Interesting Facts: Akers does a great job of placing the information from Abigail's letters into a story, without directly quoting the letters line by line. |
 | Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 October, 2002)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Slaveowner & Political Stooge: Lincoln was a slaveowner and a political stooge that duped the entire U.S. into a war that shouldn't have been fought. |
 | Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
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by University Press of Kansas
Hardcover
(01 February, 2002)
(2 reviews) 
Customer Review: Extraordinary: Knott provides us with a clear account of Hamilton's philosophical contributions and a compelling story about the uncertainty with which Americans approach his legacy. |
 | Alexander Hamilton
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by Penguin Books
Hardcover
(26 April, 2004)
(51 reviews)
Editorial Review: Building on biographies by Richard Brookhiser and Willard Sterne Randall, Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. |
 | Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past
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by Overlook Press
Hardcover
(03 August, 2004)
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 | Alexander The Great
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 September, 2004)
(19 reviews)
Customer Review: Best of five books I've read on Alexander: This book is insanely great. The author was shockingly young when he wrote it, but then, |
 | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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by Vintage
Paperback
(07 April, 1998)
(88 reviews) 
Customer Review: Dry, but overall interesting: This book took me about four months to read. I kept picking other books up and forgetting about this one. |
| American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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by Vintage
Paperback
(07 April, 1998)
(88 reviews)
Customer Review: Dry, but overall interesting: This book took me about four months to read. I kept picking other books up and forgetting about this one. |
 | An American Requiem : God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
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by Mariner Books
Paperback
(01 April, 1997)
(25 reviews)
Editorial Review: If the Civil War pitted brother against brother, the Vietnam War is best understood as pitting father against son. Some of Vietnam's longest lasting battles were fought in heavy rages and even heavier silences across the dinner table. |
 | An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover
(15 November, 2003)
(14 reviews)
Editorial Review: Was George Washington a dedicated slaveholder and, like Thomas Jefferson, a father of slave children? Or was he a closeted abolitionist and moralist who abhorred the abuse of African-Americans? In An Imperfect God: George Washington, |
 | Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business (2nd Edition)
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by Longman
Paperback
(21 September, 1999)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Carnegie and the American Dream: Andrew Carnegie really epitomized the American Dream. His rags to riches story, while unusual in its extent, |
 | Andrew Jackson
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by Perennial
Paperback
(27 February, 1969)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: This brief biography focuses more on the political career of Andrew Jackson than on his military heroism at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. It nevertheless provides an overview of the martial events that made Jackson's rise to the presidency possible. |
 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
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by Scribner
Paperback
(25 May, 1999)
(1623 reviews)
Customer Review: An exceptionally heartrendering and poignant novel: The non-fiction read of Angela's Ashes captured our attention with an infinite barrage of pure human emotions and experiences. |
 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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by Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
(01 June, 1993)
(436 reviews)
Editorial Review: A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, |
 | Because He Could
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by Regan Books
Hardcover
(12 October, 2004)
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 | Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(01 July, 2003)
(98 reviews)
Editorial Review: Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, |
 | Blood Done Sign My Name : A True Story
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by Crown
Hardcover
(18 May, 2004)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: When he was but 10 years old, Tim Tyson heard one of his boyhood friends in Oxford, N.C. excitedly blurt the words that were to forever change his life: "Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger!" The cold-blooded street murder of young Henry Marrow by an ambitious, |
 | Bobby Fischer Goes to War : How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match
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Hardcover
(02 March, 2004)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: A fascinating story about a chess genius: David Edmonds is and John Eidinow was with the BBC; both are award-winning journalists. |
 | Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
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by Plume Books
Paperback
(01 September, 1988)
(16 reviews)
Customer Review: A Seattle Royko Fan: You don't have to be from Chicago to appreciate this book andRoyko's genius as a writer and wry political observer.H |
 | Charlemagne: Father of a Continent
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by University of California Press
Hardcover
(01 August, 2004)
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 | Charles Carroll of Carrollton Faithful Revolutionary
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by Scepter Pubs
Hardcover
(01 January, 2001)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: What you didn't get in american history courses: When Charles Carroll of Carrollton died at 95 years old, he was universally mourned in the young republic. |
 | Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
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by Grove/Atlantic
Paperback
(01 April, 1998)
(90 reviews)
Customer Review: The Scrupulous account of a life of a great revolutionary: This meticulously researched and clearly written biography of Che gives the reader all one wanted to know about the life and history of the revered revolutionary. |
 | Chester Alan Arthur (The American Presidents)
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by Times Books
Hardcover
(21 June, 2004)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: An intriguing look at an overlooked president: This is a fascinating book. Although it is relatively brief, it paints a detailed portrait of a gilded age - not unlike our own -and of one privileged politician who rose above the spoils system to restore integrity and style to the White House. |
 | Children of Henry VIII
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by Ballantine Books
Hardcover
(09 July, 1996)
(51 reviews)
Editorial Review: The royal family may have its problems these days, but as Alison Weir reminds us in this cohesive and impeccably researched book, the nobility of old England could be both loveless and ruthless. Weir, an expert in the period and author of a book on Henry's VIII wives, |
 | Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial
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by Thames & Hudson
Hardcover
(01 October, 1995)
(20 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent for a good read or as a historical reference book: Chris Scarre's Chronicle is a very good overview of the Roman emperors, |
 | Churchill: A Life
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by Owl Books (NY)
Paperback
(01 October, 1992)
(33 reviews)
Editorial Review: It is impossible to understand the Second World War without understanding Winston Churchill, the bold British Prime Minister who showed himself to be one of the greatest statesmen any nation has ever known. |
 | Diana: The Portrait
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by Andrews McMeel Publishing
Hardcover
(30 August, 2004)
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 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood
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by Random House Trade Paperbacks
Paperback
(11 March, 2003)
(106 reviews)
Customer Review: A different perspective: It was interesting to read a book about life in Africa, from the perspective of a white woman brought up in a family who clung fiercely to the notion of white supremacy with every last bit of their strength. |
 | Eleanor of Aquitaine : A Life
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by Ballantine Books
Hardcover
(25 January, 2000)
(55 reviews)
Editorial Review: Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a textbook,Alison Weir's study of the revered and reviled Eleanor of Aquitaine should be valuable to anyone with an interest in medieval European history. |
 | Eleni
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(29 September, 1996)
(38 reviews)
Customer Review: Romanticized view of Greek civil war through a child's eyes: "Eleni" is an hymn to the author's mother. It describes the strength of his mother's love for her children that helped the family survive through a variety of hardships - the father's absence in USA, |
 | Elizabeth and Mary : Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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by Knopf
Hardcover
(06 January, 2004)
(9 reviews)
Editorial Review: Jane Dunn’s Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens offers a blend of history and biography that traces the "dynamic interaction" between two of the most powerful women in Western history. Dunn remains ever aware of the uniqueness of her two central figures: both women ruled as divinely ordained monarchs in a male dominated power structure; |
 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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by Carroll & Graf Publishers
Paperback
(01 March, 1999)
(332 reviews)
Customer Review: Startling good read: Whew!! That's the first word that comes to my mind. It surfaced in my thoughts numerous times as I was reading this tale. |
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