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| Jean Edward Smith - Grant |
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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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$2.00 - $35.00
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| Walter Jackson Bate - Samuel Johnson |
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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 ...
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$12.00 - $23.00
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| Allan Brandt - The Cigarette Century |
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A social history of cigarette smoking in America and an investigative report into the health issues related to smoking, THE CIGARETTE CENTURY won the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history writing and was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Allan M. Brandt presents well-r ...
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$24.00 - $24.00
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| Robert Lewis Taylor - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Books |
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THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE MCPHEETERS is a work I rank right up there with Lonesome Dove. So did the Pulitzer juries, awarding the prize to each in its year of publication. With that bit of background, I have a simple charge for you: Prepare yourself for a wonderful reading experience. This is a novel th ...
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$23.00 - $23.00
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