LADY BLUE EYES by Barbara Sinatra
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Category: Biography
Barbara Sinatra's first public love letter to the husband she adored, she celebrates the sensational singer, possessive mate, sexy heartthrob, and devoted friend that she found in Frank in Lady Blue Eyes. For more than two decades, Barbara was always by Frank Sinatra's side, traveling the globe and hos ...Show more
General Ulysses S. Grant by Edward G. Longacre
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Category: Biography
This work takes a fresh, new look at General Grant's great battlefield successes, before and during the American Civil War, and the effect that his conflicted personality had on his military career.
GENERAL ULYSSES S GRANT by Edward G. Longacre
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Category: Biography
Despite his reputation for rash decisions, brutal tactics, and intemperate behavior, Ulysses S. Grant was the only Union general who could win the war for Lincoln. Grant's aggressive strategies, swift movements and uncompromising battlefield attacks were praised in the North, feared in the South, and re ...Show more
FREUD AND HIS FOLLOWERS by Paul Roazen
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Category: Biography | Series: Da Capo Series in Science
Paul Roazen's study of Sigmund Freud and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle is widely recognized as the best portrait of Freud and his world, and it focuses as much on the human dramas involved as on the ideas the participants developed. Here, around the master, are t ...Show more
GALILEO WATCHER OF THE SKIES by Wootton David
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Category: Biography
A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, ...Show more
BOYLE BETWEEN GOD AND SCIENCE by Michael Hunter
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Category: Biography
Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker--pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on ph ...Show more
AMERICAN CAESARS LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS FROM FRANKLIN D ROO by Nigel Hamilton
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Category: Biography
A provocative portrait of U.S. presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush American Caesars takes a fresh look at the lives and careers of the twelve leaders of the American empire since World War II, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. President by president, the noted biographer ...Show more
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
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Category: Biography
Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and conquered and annexed Greece? This landmark biography is ...Show more
IVAN THE TERRIBLE by Madariaga Isabel
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Category: Biography
The definitive biography of Ivan the Terrible, setting the Tsar's infamous cruelty within the context of his time. Ivan IV, "the Terrible" (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror--an ...Show more
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE by Hugh Brogan
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Category: Biography
"Magisterial. . . . The authoritative life for our time."--Washington Post Book World Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for libert ...Show more
JONATHAN EDWARDS A LIFE by George M. Marsden
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Category: Biography
2003 Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth c ...Show more
BECOMING VICTORIA by Lynne Vallone
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Category: Biography
Just eight months old when her father, Edward, duke of Kent, died unexpectedly, the princess Victoria moved significantly closer to England's throne. The task of raising a potential female monarch assumed critical importance for the nation, yet Victoria's girlhood and adolescence have received scant at ...Show more