Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills
 Mediocre president, good book: I had always been somewhat intrigued by Franklin Pierce, perhaps our most obscure president. I would wonder why he was almost neglected by history while other presidents got much more press. As I eventually learned - and as [... more]
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Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son
Author: Peter A. Wallner Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 973.66092 EAN: 9780975521618 ISBN: 0975521616 Number Of Pages: 322 Publication Date: 2004-06-30 [... more]
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A Thread Across The Ocean
Persistence of vision: The first transatlantic cable was a Victorian era triumph that enchanted the world with its glory. The story is one of the courage and persistence of its director-in-charge, Cyrus Field, born in 1819 to a prominent family of [... more]
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Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents: What Your Teachers ...
author's agenda?: I do not deny the skill of the author in writing an entertaining and amusing book,however his bias in regard to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush begs for clarification or at least a recognition of the author's preference for left of [... more]
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American President
From Amazon.com: The American President has the looks of a coffee-table book, the smarts of an academic tome, and the readability of a novel, full of interesting and little-known facts about the first 41 chief executives of the United States. (Bill [... more]
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Edison in the Boardroom: How Leading Companies Realize ...
Visionary and Innovative Pragmatism: The basic concept of this book is very intriguing: Briefly examine the life and career of Thomas Edison and then suggest direct correlations between his achievements with real-world situations in which various [... more]
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Complete Book of Presidential Trivia
Nice way to learn history: We have had some lousy presidents, but this is not a lousy book. Even the bad presidents were interesting to read about. I knew a lot of the answers to the questions, but some of this material was totally new to me. I like the [... more]
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M.A.S.H.: Season 1
From Amazon.com: Like the TV incarnation of The Odd Couple, the M*A*S*H series has supplanted the original film in the public's consciousness. Legendary comedy writer Larry Gelbart (Your Show of Shows) deserves a medal for developing Robert Altman's [... more]
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Jefferson Davis, American
From Amazon.com: The title might seem odd, given that Jefferson Davis (1808-89) served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and never once, in the 34 years between the end of the war and his death, expressed any remorse for his part in [... more]
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