The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident
 Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel: Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel is a story about a city of Jewish people who are being killed by a guy named Hitler. The main characters are Hitler, The Weisel, and a city of Jewish people. Hitler is a leader who tries to kill [... more]
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American Reformers, 1815-1860, Revised Edition
Too Superficial a Study: While American Reformers gives a fair overview of significant individuals and their movements in U.S. history, the book glosses over much material. Walters has accumulated much data, but it comes across as if he's heading a p.r. [... more]
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Road-Side Dog
Perhaps even worthy of "wise": Milosz has given us another wonderful book - one firmly planted in memories but not obcessed with the past. A wonderful section is devoted to poetic ideas that he has never written which he offers as potential [... more]
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Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington
From someone in the middle of it.: This was a very interesting book. You got to learn about the guy who was first able to separate plutonium not just a small bit at a time but on an industrial scale at Hanford. The story got me interested in Lawerence [... more]
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First Great Triumph
a triumph of a book: Zimmermann has written an excellent book about the roots and beginnings of the "American Century." Influenced by Walter Isaacson's The Wise Men (a "group biography" of the Cold War), he devotes the first (and [... more]
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An Anatomy of Drama
Author: Martin Esslin Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808.2 EAN: 9780809005505 ISBN: 0809005506 Number Of Pages: 125 Publication Date: 1977-12 [... more]
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The Pine Barrens
From Amazon.com: Contrary to popular opinion, the whole of New Jersey is not a continuous Superfund site enlivened solely by poorly labeled Turnpike exits and skanky diners. In fact, the largest essentially untouched wilderness east of the Mississippi [... more]
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Author: Camilla Townsend Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780809077380 ISBN: 0809077388 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2005-08-25 [... more]
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14-18
Limited evidence leads to sweeping conclusions: It took me a while to understand why I was so disappointed and uncomfortable with this book. The subject matter and chapter topics seemed intriguing; the writing style wasn't bad. Then I began to understand [... more]
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The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and the Tropical ...
Author: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 981.04092 EAN: 9780809042197 ISBN: 0809042193 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 2004-09-02 [... more]
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Patterns of Childhood
Brilliant: This novel is Christa Wolf's fictionalized account of growing up in Nazi Germany. This is a story about war, history, memory, and learning from our mistakes. It is positively gripping. The author manages, as another reviewer noted, to show [... more]
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Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
Very Interesting But...: Fest has written a very good account of Hitler's and the Reich's last days. However, there is a glaring error or at the very least, an ambiguity that I have not heard others mention in their reviews. Page 111 states that Hitler [... more]
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