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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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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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]
$35.00
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Amazon.com Review: Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend twenty years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are four hundred at the [... more]
$15.95
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The Stories of John Cheever
Amazon.com Review: "These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when [... more]
$17.95
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
REVIEW OF WILLIAM TAUBMAN'S KHRUSCHEV BY JOHN CHUCKMAN: It's about time we had a decent biography of Nikita Khruschev. Khruschev is a more important historical figure than seems generally appreciated today. He was something of a refreshing presence on [... more]
$35.00
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Interpreter of Maladies (Edition 001)
Amazon.com Review: Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and [... more]
$14.95
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Truman
Amazon.com Review: This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after [... more]
$22.00
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Amazon.com Review: If the first 270 pages of this book had been published separately, they would have made up a lively, insightful, beautifully written history of theoretical physics and the men and women who plumbed the mysteries of the atom. Along with [... more]
$20.00
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Oscar Wilde
Amazon.com Review: Richard Ellmann capped an illustrious career in biography (his James Joyce is considered one of the masterpieces of the 20th century) with this life of Oscar Wilde, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer [... more]
$22.00
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Amazon.com Review: "...the most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise." --Washington Post Book World "...an extraordinary confluence of observation, hard work, knowledge, and reflection; a better book by a journalist on the [... more]
$16.95
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Amazon.com Review: Martin Dressler is a turn-of-the-century New York City entrepreneur who begins in his father's cigar store but dreams of a bigger empire. That dream shapes into a series of large hotels. At first, Dressler's seems the archetypal [... more]
$14.00
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