 | "Bayonet! Forward": My Civil War Reminiscences
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by Stan Clark Military Books
Hardcover
(01 August, 1994)
(5 reviews) 
Customer Review: Bayonet! Forward": My Civil War Reminiscences: I became acquainted with the story of Joshua Chamberlain after reading Shaaras' "Killer Angels" and wanted to learn more about him. |
 | "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback
(01 April, 1997)
(156 reviews) 
Editorial Review: A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to anautobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of receivedwisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88)cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, |
 | A Drinking Life : A Memoir
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by Back Bay Books
Paperback
(01 April, 1995)
(25 reviews)
Customer Review: Pete Hamill: Brooklyn Drinking, Loving, Fighting, Living!: Pete Hamill is a New York Treasure. Hamill grew up in blue collar Brooklyn in the 40s and 50s in a working class "dysfunctional" famlly. |
 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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by Vintage
Paperback
(13 February, 2001)
(741 reviews) 
Customer Review: Maybe I'm too old for this book: Eggers is clearly a fine writer with a lot of talent but this book was tedious too many times for my taste. |
 | A Rumor of War
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by Owl Books
Paperback
(15 November, 1996)
(65 reviews) 
Customer Review: Put It On Your Bookshelf!: "A Rumor of War" is a darkly disturbing book. It is set in what was the early, "optimistic" Vietnam in the spring of '65 when we thought we were fighting for "freedom" and before the reality of the place hit home. |
 | A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save
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by PublicAffairs
Hardcover
(20 January, 2004)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: Colonel Kukllinski, a hero or a traitor?: I heard many things about the martial law in Poland, and I read many books on the cold war. |
 | A Table In The Presence : The Dramatic Account of How a U.S. Marine Battalion Experienced
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by W Publishing Group
Hardcover
(07 April, 2004)
(16 reviews)
Customer Review: Testimony of God's grace: I read this book in one night, thoroughly captivated by the descriptions of yes, war, but mostly the stories of our Marines' hearts and how they were changed during the course of Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
 | Absolutely American : Four Years at West Point
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by Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover
(04 July, 2003)
(59 reviews)
Editorial Review: Individuality would not seem to be a highly prized virtue at West Point. After all, new cadets arriving at the military academy are not required to pack anything more than a toothbrush and some underwear since they will be issued everything else. |
 | Alexander : The Ambiguity of Greatness
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by Random House
Hardcover
(02 November, 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, |
 | Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Life
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by W W Norton & Co Inc
Hardcover
(01 November, 1997)
(7 reviews) 
Editorial Review: This astonishing biography of Alfred Kinsey, the man who launched the sexual revolution, is graphically frank about his decidedly out-of-the-mainstream sexual practices (including masochism and voyeurism), |
 | All Creatures Great and Small
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by Audio Renaissance
Audio CD
(13 December, 2002)
(75 reviews)
Customer Review: Long But Good: Monique Gammon Sunnyvale C.A. 6/5/98 The book All Creatures Great and smallby James herriot was not my first pick. |
 | All over but the Shoutin'
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by Vintage
Paperback
(08 September, 1998)
(253 reviews)
Customer Review: A captivating southern voice: I first saw Rick Bragg on C-Span BookTV and was impressed by his candor, vulnerability, and affection for the audience. |
 | America's First Frogman: The Draper Kauffman Story
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by Naval Institute Press
Hardcover
(15 October, 2004)
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 | American Soldier
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by ReganBooks
Hardcover
(03 August, 2004)
Editorial Review: As Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, Tommy Franks led the American and Coalition forces to victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Unsurprisingly, the portions of American Soldier covering these wars are the most interesting because they combine military maneuvers, |
 | At Hell's Gate : A Soldier's Journey
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by Shambhala
Hardcover
(14 September, 2004)
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 | Audubon's Elephant : America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of The Birds of
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by Henry Holt and Co.
Hardcover
(12 April, 2004)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: An American Classic From England: Let us say the Book Fairy comes and says you can be given one book, any book you want. Here's my advice: take John James Audubon's _The Birds of America_. |
 | Autobiography of a Face
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by Perennial
Paperback
(18 March, 2003)
(50 reviews)
Customer Review: I had Ewing's sarcoma & related to Lucy feeling all alone.: I read Lucy's book several years ago, all in one day. Her words, |
 | Ava's Man
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by Vintage
Paperback
(13 August, 2002)
(56 reviews)
Customer Review: THE STORY OF A MAN - MAGNIFICENTLY TOLD: Few can evoke an accurate image of the Deep South. Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Bragg (All Over But The Shoutin') does more than evoke it, |
 | Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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by PublicAffairs
Paperback
(14 October, 2003)
(14 reviews)
Customer Review: Deeply Moving & Motivating!: If you know the story of Grameen Bank, and wanted to know more about the founder - I don't need to say anymore.I |
 | Battle Ready
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by Grosset & Dunlap
Hardcover
(24 May, 2004)
(41 reviews) 
Customer Review: A General Speaks Out: This is the latest installment of war thriller fiction author Tom Clancy's entry into the ranks of military biographies with his Commanders series. |
 | 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, |
 | Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse
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by Independent Publishers Group
Hardcover
(01 April, 2004)
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 | Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life
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by Miramax Books
Hardcover
(10 May, 2004)
(53 reviews)
Editorial Review: Veteran newsman and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert is known for his direct and unpretentious style and in this charming memoir he explains why. Russert's father is profiled as a plainspoken World War II veteran who worked two blue-collar jobs while raising four kids in South Buffalo but the elder Russert's lessons on how to live an honest, |
 | Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
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by Greenhill Books
Hardcover
(01 October, 2002)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Interesting Memoir of the Eastern Front: Koschorrek's work serves as an interesting memoir of an aspect of World War II not often discussed in the West. |
 | Boyd : The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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by Back Bay Books
Paperback
(10 May, 2004)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A remarkable American!: This is a remarkable book about a remarkable American. I normally gravitate to science fiction, but this book caught my eye. |
 | Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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by Little, Brown
Hardcover
(December, 2002)
(38 reviews)
Customer Review: Bloodless Military History, Hilarious Intellectual History: This is a book of oxymorons: the biography of America's greatest fighter pilot with no battles described; |
 | Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist
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by Main Street Books
Paperback
(18 August, 1996)
(60 reviews)
Customer Review: What You Can Learn From This Book: I just read the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. This book is a great supplement to that decidedly more technical text, |
 | Carnegie
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by Wiley
Hardcover
(30 August, 2002)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: A Biography that reads like a novel!: I enjoy reading a good biography every once in a while, which prompted me to buy this book. |
 | Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
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by Random House
Hardcover
(07 August, 2001)
(14 reviews)
Customer Review: Chesty, warts and all: Lieutenant General Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller has an almost mystical quality for all who have borne the title "Marine." |
 | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Hardcover
(09 November, 2004)
Editorial Review: John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. |
 | Corps Values : Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines
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by Bantam
Paperback
(01 September, 1998)
(18 reviews)
Editorial Review: Call it Robert Fulghum by way of John Wayne... In 1953, Zell Miller was as low as he could get. He'd dropped out of college after being made to feel inferior because of his "hillbilly" background and wound up in jail one weekend after getting drunk on moonshine and driving his car into a ditch.I |
 | Courting Justice: From New York Yankees vs. Major League Baseball to Bush vs. Gore,
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by Miramax Books
Hardcover
(13 October, 2004)
Editorial Review: David Boies's memoir should be a bestseller for two simple reasons. First, his spectacular legal career, representing clients as diverse as Al Gore, George Steinbrenner, the U.S. Justice Department, and Calvin Klein, |
 | Cpl. Forrest Guth: 'E' Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division (WWII American Paratroopers Portrait Series,
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by D-Day Publishing
Paperback
(01 June, 2002)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Forrest Guth Book Review: Mr. DeTrez does a fabulous job in telling Corporal Guth's story of his time in the Airborne. Tons of pictures, |
 | Curious Minds : How a Child Becomes a Scientist
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by Pantheon
Hardcover
(31 August, 2004)
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 | Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness
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by Vintage
Paperback
(08 January, 1992)
(87 reviews)
Editorial Review: In 1985 William Styron fell victim to a crippling and almost suicidal depression, the same illness that took the lives ofRandall Jarrell, Primo Levi and Virginia Woolf.That Styron survived his descent into madness is something of a miracle.T |
 | Dr Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer
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by Random House
Hardcover
(06 February, 2001)
(23 reviews)
Editorial Review: Early in 1998, New York Times science reporter and author Gina Kolata happened to be seated at a banquet next to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson. When Kolata asked Watson what was new in the world of science, |
 | Educating Alice : Adventures of a Curious Woman
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by Random House
Hardcover
(06 April, 2004)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: Seeing the world one class at a time: Alice Steinach loves traveling, loves writing, and loves learning. So she wrote her own job description and spent a year taking different classes around the world from French cuisine to Scottish sheepdog handling. |
 | Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
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by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Paperback
(01 June, 2001)
(107 reviews)
Customer Review: it's a diary: I just finished reading this book, in one sitting. I was surprised to find the strong gut reactions that have prompted people to review it here. |
 | Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Turning Points in History
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by John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover
(09 April, 2004)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: Worth reading: I probably wouldn't have read this book if it hadn't been written by Bob Edwards. (I have a three foot pile of unread books. |
 | Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
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by HarperSanFrancisco
Paperback
(14 September, 1990)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: Incredible triumph in the face of trials: This heartwarming, inspiring, challenging, well written book quickly shot to the top of the list of our family's favorites! |
 | Exposing Myself
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by Bantam
Hardcover
(01 September, 1991)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: I saw Geraldo exposed and I loved it!!: Geraldo is off-putting to many Americans to put it mildly. But that is because, like many extremely intelligent people (I'd say geniuses, |
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