Doris Kearns Goodwin
This handsomely illustrated volume commemorates Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday and gives rare insight into the President who shook the world-and whose words and example endure today in nations from Siberia to Mexico to Pakistan. This is the ... [... more]
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No Ordinary Time -
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin - Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1994 [... more]
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
 Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become [... more]
$18.98
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Team of Rivals
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become [... more]
$12.99
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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
A summing up: "Growing up is the process of learning how many things you can't do and how many people you can't be. When you've winnowed them out, what's left is you." - Barbara Holland I've said before of author/essayist Barbara Holland that [... more]
$14.95
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The Best American History Essays 2007
Book Description: This second annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2005 and 2006, provides a quick and comprehensive overview of the top work and the [... more]
$23.95
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The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II
An excellent brief political history of the post WWII period: Chafe does a good job on selected topics;i.e., politics, civil rights and foreign policy. Weak on economics, technology, farm policy. Heavily dependent on some secondary sources like Doris [... more]
$59.95
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the ...
Amazon.com Review: Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote [... more]
$29.95
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Wait Till Next Year.
Author: Doris Kearns. Goodwin Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 1997 [... more]
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Lincoln
Amazon.com Review: Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, [... more]
$8.99
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Lincoln
Psychologizing Lincoln: Presumption presented as bold fact. I do not like others telling us the hidden thoughts and motives of others (as this book does). We barely understand ourselves. The bible says of our own hearts "who can know it?". Yet [... more]
$32.95
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933
How did this ever become a national bestseller?: This nonsensical bio is written entirely from a blind feminist perspective. The research is suspect. The prose amateurish. The details gossipy and contrived. If Eleanor Roosevelt was truly a woman of [... more]
$36.58
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