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David G. McCullough - Mornings on Horseback
Noted historian McCullough examines the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, providing a portrait of his family and a social history of a time period. Winner of the National Book Award for Biography.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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J. Christopher Herold - Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
Release Date: February 01, 2002
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Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President McKinley. Morris explores Roosevelt's origins and growth, and conveys the robust personality that charmed a nation.
Score: 5.0 5 Reviews
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Sheldon Vanauken and C. S. Lewis - A Severe Mercy
This acclaimed story traces the idyllic marriage of Sheldon and Jean Vanauken, their search for faith, their friendship with C.S. Lewis and the tragedy of untimely death and love lost. It includes 18 letters by C.S. Lewis. A winner of the National Religious Book Award and the Gold Medallion Award.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Beth Kephart - A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
In this 1998 National Book Award finalist, Kephart chronicles the tragedy of her son's developmental problems and her struggle to lead him toward wholeness.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Phillip M. Hoose - We Were There, Too: Young People in Us History
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro&#8217;s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. <b>Master of the Senate</b> takes Johnson&#8217;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most a ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography begins with the end of World War I and chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, the little-known political agenda behind it, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Joseph J. Ellis - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover(s) over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded foo ... More
Score: 4.5 4 Reviews
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Neil Sheehan - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Through a portrait of military advisor John Paul Vann, a journalist traces the arc of Americans' disillusionment and ambivalence about the War in Vietnam.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Maxine Kingston - China Men
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Arthur M. Schlesinger - A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
An account of John F. Kennedy's campaign, election, and days as President.
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - Robert Kennedy and His Times
Private papers, letters, and journals shed new light on Kennedy family relationships and underlie an account of Robert Kennedy's private and public lives, the forces that shaped him, and his impact on the United States.
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David Willis McCullough - Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
A new edition of the classic, National Book Award-winning biography examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt from age ten to twenty-seven, focusing on the influence of his family relationships and experiences on his growth to manhood.
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Elizabeth Partridge - This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Offers an in-depth look at the life and music of this celebrated song writer and singer who performed songs from the late 1920s to the 1950s about daily life, racial equality, and the working man's world in America.
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Maurice Alexander Natanson - Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infintie Tasks
Release Date: June 01, 1974
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Justin Kaplan - Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
Delves into the conflict between Clemens the man seeking success and Twain the man bound by morals.
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John Phillip Santos - Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Interwoven throughout this memoir of growing up on the Mexican-American border are references to Indian and Mexican myths and stories. John Phillip Santos, a Rhodes scholar, writer, and television producer, writes about various members of his family and contemplates his ancestry. This book was nomin ... More
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Judith Thurman - Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
A portrait of one of the world's great writers and personalities chronicles the colorful life of Colette, from her diverse marriages and affairs with both men and women to her literary success.
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Robert Manson Myers - The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War
The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation family, now available in a compact, illustrated volume for new readers and for all those who so greatly admired the original monumental edition. The letters vividly recreate a period of American history unparalleled for its drama and poignancy ... More
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A. Scott Berg - Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
This "highly readable work of literary history" (New York Times Book Review) is the first to explore the professional and personal life of editor extraordinaire Maxwell Petkins -- guiding light for such stellar literary figures as E Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and many more. Me ... More
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David James Duncan - My Story As Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age
In these 22 essays, David James Duncan, one of America's most celebrated nature writers and activists, meditates on the many aspects of water conservation, including the havoc wrought by the mining industry. National Book Award nominee, 2001.
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Nate Shaw and Theodore Rosengarten - All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Release Date: April 01, 2000
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Judith Thurman - Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
This masterly, thorough, and immensely enlightening biography, originally published in 1982, was the winner of a National Book Award.
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Paul Monette - Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, this memoir by Paul Monette (1945-1995) tells about what he considered his "wasted years"--the years before he met the man who would become his long-term lover, and before he came out as a homosexual. The author discusses the pain of being a closeted homo ... More
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Ronald Steel - Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Release Date: November 01, 1999
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Walter Jackson Bate - Samuel Johnson
In this biography - a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers - W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. The first great modern biography of Johnson, it confirms that his statement ... More
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James Carroll - An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant general who chose Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son James began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, yet another ca ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Harold Bloom - Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom, author of THE WESTERN CANON and editor of hundreds of critical works, unpacks a lifetime of experience with Shakespeare and his characters. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
Score: 4.0 4 Reviews
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