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David Willis McCullough and Nelson Runger - John Adams
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Truman sheds new light on America's second president, chronicling the life and times of Adams's youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his remarkable influence on the b ... More
Score: 4.9 18 Reviews
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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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David Willis McCullough - Truman
Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at o ... More
Score: 4.8 11 Reviews
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Joseph J. Ellis and Runger Nelson - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award&#8212;winning author of <b>American Sphinx</b><i> </i>explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men&#8211;Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison&#8211;set the course for our nation.<br><br>Joseph Ellis ... More
Score: 4.6 10 Reviews
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Thomas McCraw - Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis and Alfred E. Kahn
Profiles four key figures in the history of government regulation of business.
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Richard Rodriguez - Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their ... More
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Katharine Graham - Personal History
In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of in ... More
Score: 5.0 4 Reviews
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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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Robert Massie - Peter the Great: His Life and World
"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"<br>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<br>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States. ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II
Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work paints a detailed, intimate portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and provides a brilliant narrative account of America during wartime. of photos.
Score: 4.9 10 Reviews
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Louis Menand - The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Written in the spirit of an idea about ideas, a narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1872 to talk about ideas and whose members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Pei ... More
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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Cyra McFadden - Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir
Cy Taillon was the molasses-voiced king of rodeo announcers. When he died in 1980, newspapers in the West canonized him as the dean of rodeo and compared him to John Wayne. A reformed rake, handsome and charming and flashy, he was also difficult, often more lovable to the public than to his family. ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Russell Baker - Growing Up
A reissue of the original prize-winning memoir by journalist Russell Baker.
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
On the basis of a diary, Ulrich gives the reader an intimate and densely imagined portrait of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard and her society--a portrait that sheds light on its medical practices, religious squabbles and sexual mores. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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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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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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Richard Ellmann - Oscar Wilde
The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde--psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.
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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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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Alan Taylor - William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN is the story of a father and son who embodied many of the contradictions that divided the United States during the early years of the Republic. William Cooper founded Cooperstown, New York, and his son, James Fenimore Cooper, became a successful novelist. Their story shows how ... More
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Dean Acheson - Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
In these memoirs by the former Secretary of State, Dean Acheson sees himself as having been "present at the creation" of the American century. Acheson's policies were praised by many and damned by others, including Joseph McCarthy.
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Joseph J. Ellis - Founding Brothers
This group portrait of the Founding Fathers emphasizes the sometimes intense associations and rivalries among Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Adams, Franklin, Madison, and Washington.The author examines six defining moments when the personal and the political collided, and shows how their distinctive sty ... More
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy.
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Jean Edward Smith - Grant
Arguing that Grant has been underrated by historians, a celebrated biographer and author of John Marshall: Definer of a Nation seeks to correct the record with this new assessment of the celebrated Civil War general and Reconstruction-era president.
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William S. McFeely - Grant: A Biography
A definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant traces the life of America's eighteenth president from his uneventful childhood, through his West Point education and extraordinary successes on the battlefield, to his failure in the world of politics.
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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
Chronicling the long career of a prime mover in America's nascent civil rights movement, a Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning biography shows the major impact this great and controversial thinker had on America.
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Joel Williamson - William Faulkner and Southern History
One of America's most acclaimed historians of the South weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner with an astute analysis of his works and a revealing history of his ancestors in Mississippi--a family history that becomes, in Williamson's skilled hands, a vivid portrait of Southern culture ... More
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John E. MacK - A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence
Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Mack uses interviews, far-flung correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters for his basis.
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