Sister: The Life of Legendary Interior Decorator Mrs. ...
 Amazon.com Review: Born with the silverest of spoons in her mouth, Mrs. Henry Parish II went on to become, of all things, a working woman. Yet she couldn't have picked a métier more suited to her milieu. As a decorator, she drew upon both her blue- [... more]
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Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
A somewhat interesting and fairly candid account of IBM: Although not exactly riveting, this book does provide an interesting and readable history of IBM from the view of Thomas Watson Jr. who took over control of IBM after his father, Thomas Watson Sr.. [... more]
$21.00
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John Adams
Amazon.com Review: Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a [... more]
$38.00
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
The writing life, uncloseted: In this orderly collection of autobiographical sketches Edith Wharton - generously and with nearly photographic recall - begins by inviting readers into her early life in nineteenth-century New York. We are treated to its [... more]
$16.00
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Theodore Rex
Amazon.com Review: In this lively biography, Edmund Morris returns to the gifted, energetic, and thoroughly controversial man whom the novelist Henry James called "King Theodore." In his two terms as president of the United States, Roosevelt [... more]
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Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 ...
Amazon.com Review: Though few Americans can identify Andrew Jackson Downing, who died in 1852 at just 36, his influence as an architect, horticulturist, writer, and town planner has been far-reaching. Through his writings and his designs, Downing helped [... more]
$21.95
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Amazon.com Review: In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of [... more]
$28.95
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal ...
Amazon.com Review: By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity. You Can't Be Neutral [... more]
$14.00
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Amazon.com Review: Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960. This, [... more]
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An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South ...
A Yankee Wife makes the South her Home: There is always something intriquing about finding a personal notebook written by our ancestors and this is no exception. Emily Wharton Sinkler, a Philadelphia society lady marries and becomes a southern belle. The [... more]
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a ...
Amazon.com Review: In conjunction with its 100th anniversary, the Ford Motor Company opened its monumental archives to the unfettered research of author/historian Douglas Brinkley. And while the 800-page history that resulted from that work (as well as [... more]
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
How Old Man Moses Kept Rolling Along: When Shea Stadium is demolished later this year, it will mark another diminishment of the legacy of Robert Moses, the man who built the stadium along with so many of the parks, highways, and buildings that made New [... more]
$24.00
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