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James G. Benze
Nancy Reagan

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image l…

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Mari Keller Dyer
Discovering D'Arensbourg

In the early years of French Louisiana, Charles d'Arensbourg was the first commander and judge of the German Coast, the third oldest German settlement in the United States. His life in Europe has been tol…

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Daniel Schulman
The Money Kings

The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants---with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman---who profoundly influenced the rise of modern …

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William Whyte
Oxford Jackson

This is the first biography of T. G. Jackson, an architect who transformed the image of Oxford, rebuilt public schools, and became a leading architect of the arts and crafts movement. Although many of his…

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Harlan Greene
Porgy's Ghost

On the world stage, the opera Porgy and Bess is acclaimed as a distinctively American, yet universal, classic. Though scholars and the popular press have discussed it for nearly one hundred years, no one …

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Michael Attalides
Evicted From Eden

A Journey Through Cyprus: History, Memory, and the Search for Reunification.Spanning two centuries, this powerful narrative by Michael Attalides traces the intertwined story of an island and a family. Beg…

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Joshua D Rothman
A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom

Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern Maryla…

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John A Ragosta
For the People, For the Country

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washi…

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Michael L. Thurmond
James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia

Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered England's …

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William Bolitho
Twelve Against the Gods

Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho is a dazzling exploration of adventure, ambition, and rebellion. First published in 1929, this literary classic profiles twelve legendary figures-among them Alex…

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William Morris's Socialism and Politics

A selection of key articles published over 40 years by the Journal of William Morris Studies on Morris's politics and socialism. It makes available fine scholarship from the US, Canada, Australia and the …

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Jr. Nicholas Timko
Interwoven Journeys

In the autumn of 1989, a family, a nation, and the European continent faced profound changes. The invincible human spirits of their people brought out the best in them. However, the weight of history, par…

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William Bolitho
Twelve Against the Gods

Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho is a dazzling exploration of adventure, ambition, and rebellion. First published in 1929, this literary classic profiles twelve legendary figures-among them Alex…

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Lina Haber, Schwarcz Glenn
A Refusenik's Odyssey

This is the historical biography of a fiercely communist, atheist young Soviet girl who had to revise her whole way of thinking when she was denied admission to medical school in 1973 because she was Jewi…

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Pierre Guyotat,
Idiocy

An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: rebelling aginst his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the Algeri…

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Alistair Wood
My Family and Other Spies

An extraordinary true story of growing up inside MI6, uncovering family secrets, and tracing a legacy of British espionage across half a century.'A fabulous romp of a book, part John le Carré, part Ealing…

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Benjamin T Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

The Memoirs of General William T. Shermanbegan with the year 1846 (when the Mexican War began) and ended with a chapter about the military lessons of the Civil War.

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Douglas J Slawson
The World and Work of Father John J. Burke

The World and Work of Father John J. Burke: A Mystic in Action is a full-length biography of one of the most significant, yet little-known, American Catholic public figures of the twentieth century. Burke…

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David Chanoff
Anthony Benezet

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a m…

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Nora Berend
El Cid

"Exploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure. El Cid was perhaps the…

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