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William Whyte
Oxford Jackson

This is the first biography of T. G. Jackson, an architect who transformed the image of Oxford, rebuilt public schools, and became a leading architect of the arts and crafts movement. Although many of his…

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Joshua D Rothman
A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom

Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern Maryla…

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Michael Attalides
Evicted From Eden

A Journey Through Cyprus: History, Memory, and the Search for Reunification.Spanning two centuries, this powerful narrative by Michael Attalides traces the intertwined story of an island and a family. Beg…

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John A Ragosta
For the People, For the Country

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washi…

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William Bolitho
Twelve Against the Gods

Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho is a dazzling exploration of adventure, ambition, and rebellion. First published in 1929, this literary classic profiles twelve legendary figures-among them Alex…

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Michael L. Thurmond
James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia

Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered England's …

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Lina Haber, Schwarcz Glenn
A Refusenik's Odyssey

This is the historical biography of a fiercely communist, atheist young Soviet girl who had to revise her whole way of thinking when she was denied admission to medical school in 1973 because she was Jewi…

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William Bolitho
Twelve Against the Gods

Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho is a dazzling exploration of adventure, ambition, and rebellion. First published in 1929, this literary classic profiles twelve legendary figures-among them Alex…

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Benjamin T Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

The Memoirs of General William T. Shermanbegan with the year 1846 (when the Mexican War began) and ended with a chapter about the military lessons of the Civil War.

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Pierre Guyotat,
Idiocy

An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: breaking from his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the Algerian …

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Alistair Wood
My Family and Other Spies

An extraordinary true story of growing up inside MI6, uncovering family secrets, and tracing a legacy of British espionage across half a century.'A fabulous romp of a book, part John le Carré, part Ealing…

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Douglas J Slawson
The World and Work of Father John J. Burke

The World and Work of Father John J. Burke: A Mystic in Action is a full-length biography of one of the most significant, yet little-known, American Catholic public figures of the twentieth century. Burke…

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Nancy W Sindelar
Hemingway's Passions

A provocative and unique look at how the women Hemingway loved shaped this literary legendErnest Hemingway's passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged by t…

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David Chanoff
Anthony Benezet

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a m…

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Elizabeth Jenkins
Jane Austen: The Biography

From the small, rural town of Steventon, Hampshire, one of the world's most important authors was born...In the small town of Steventon, Hampshire, one of the world's most important authors was bornJane A…

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Carla J. Mulford
Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire

Карла Малфорд в своей книге подробно рассматривает, как формировались взгляды Бенджамина Франклина (1706-1790) на экономику, общество, политику и окружающую среду. Под влиянием идей раннего либерализма эт…

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Nora Berend
El Cid

"Exploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure. El Cid was perhaps the…

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Patricia A Billingsley
Lorca in Vermont

A groundbreaking reassessment of the relationship between Federico García Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings and its impact on the poems in Lorca's landmark collection, Poet in New York.In August 192…

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Nigel Farndale
The Times Lives Behind the Music

A must-read collection for all music fans.Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times.

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Emmanuel Felton
The Search for Black Mecca

From the Washington Post 's first race and ethnicity reporter, a poignant investigation into the aftermath of the Great Migration, the promise of a Second Great Migration, and what future Black communitie…

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