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 Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the MovementBest Price: $5.24 The following is my review of the hardcover from the CNN website. "Walking With the... |  Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, 135th Anniversary, 1867-2002 (Document / 107th Congress, 2d session)Best Price: $8.00 Contains a history of the committee and standing rules of the Senate relating to appropriations.... |  Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005Best Price: $59.90 16th edition. Includes biographies of each person who has served in the... |  Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Bk. 3, October 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004Best Price: $110.00 |  Abraham Lincoln at the National Archives and Records Administration Great Lakes Region (Chicago) : Celebrating 200 Years of an American Legend |
 ConfessionsBest Price: $49.94 There are three classes of support for Christian belief: the metaphysical, the historical, and... |  The Letters (Oxford letters & memoirs)T.E.Lawrence is best known for his role in the 1916-18 Arab Revolt, recalled in David Lean's... |  Medieval Technology and Social ChangeBest Price: $14.97 Well, the title is certainly not misleading. The book talks about various innovations during... |  George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign PolicyBest Price: $8.70 One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on... |  Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)Best Price: $2.99 Although at times the essays in this do not always focus directly on Lincoln, in one he is... |
 Benazir Hukoomat: Phela Daur, Kia Khoya, Kia Paya?Benazir Bhutto has been the main protagonist on Pakistan's political stage ever since the... |  From Purdah to ParliamentBest Price: $49.98 Born before the last vestige of Mughal civilization had quite disappeared from the subcontinent,... |  White Rajahs of SarawakBest Price: $194.12 Robert Payne has produce a short history of the Broke dinasty in Sarawak (in todays Malaysian... |  Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of TriumphBest Price: $68.37 In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and... |  Lord Grenville, 1759-1834Best Price: $150.00 I have just completed editing a volume of Gouverneur Morris's diaries, for the years he... |
 Oliver Franks: Founding FatherOliver Franks was a man of formidable ability, unsurpassed achievements and unimpeachable moral... |  Selected WritingsBest Price: $16.56 This is an excellent selection of the writings of Karl Marx. This includes many writings which... |  The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II: Achievement, 1851-1869Best Price: $74.94 Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the... |  Charles Hodge: Guardian of American OrthodoxyBest Price: $54.96 Paul C. Gutjahr has rendered a great service to American religious historians, theologians, and... | Benazir Hukoomat: Phela Daur, Kia Khoya, Kia Paya? Benazir Bhutto has been the main protagonist on Pakistan's political stage ever since the... |
| From Purdah to Parliament Best Price: $49.98 Born before the last vestige of Mughal civilization had quite disappeared from the subcontinent,... | White Rajahs of Sarawak Best Price: $194.12 Robert Payne has produce a short history of the Broke dinasty in Sarawak (in todays Malaysian... | Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph Best Price: $68.37 In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and... | Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 Best Price: $150.00 I have just completed editing a volume of Gouverneur Morris's diaries, for the years he... | Oliver Franks: Founding Father Oliver Franks was a man of formidable ability, unsurpassed achievements and unimpeachable moral... |
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 Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938Best Price: $6.58 In the first volume of her series on Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook, a historian and... |  Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's LifeBest Price: $2.70 Kathleen Norris in her translation of "acedia" tells us that many of us have been... |  Baghdad Express: A Gulf War MemoirBest Price: $1.66 I have read plenty of books over here, there are times when there is little else to do. It is... |  Napoleon: A LifeBest Price: $7.75 Paul Johnson has written an excellent short life of Napoleon, a man whose mind almost nobody... |  HitlerBest Price: $8.09 Joachim Fest's book "Hitler" is a rare pleasure to read. His words create an... |
 Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a PresidentBest Price: $38.88 Robert Dallek has abriged his two volume set (nearly 1,500 pages) down to 400+ pages. Mr. Dallek... |  Alexis de Tocqueville: A LifeBest Price: $6.04 Has slightly uneven feel, gripping and vivid in parts, cool and remote in others, but that... |  Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at MonticelloBest Price: $4.41 Unlike other reviewers, I don't believe that "Secrets" requires extensive... |  When Character Was KingBest Price: $150.58 Ronald Reagan is easy to ridicule. He was a simple, direct, optimistic person whose decision to... |  Desert RoyalBest Price: $6.48 All Sultana's histrionics on behalf of women amount to just about squat. A major reason for... |
 John Major - The Autobiography |  De Gaulle : The Ruler, 1945-1970 |  C.S.LewisI do not lie when I say that this should be the only biography read on Lewis. The others are... |  Juan CarlosBest Price: $44.52 A powerful biography of Spain's great king, Juan Carlos, by the pre-eminent writer on... |  The Quest for C: Sir Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the British Secret ServiceBest Price: $1.06 A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service... |
 Man & Wife - Richard And Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years |  Adventure of FaithBest Price: $3.00 Michael Green is one of Britain's leading evangelical churchmen, a gifted evangelist, pastor... |  Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918Best Price: $215.76 Richard Holmes, the author, provides a fascinating, masterful portrait of British soldiers'... |  The Last Playboy : the High Life of Porfirio RubirosaBest Price: $39.62 If you have never heard of Porfirio Rubirosa, that's no surprise. He died in 1965, and... |  Collins Gem Royal Britain: Fascinating Insight Into British Royal LifeBest Price: $84.86 A fascinating illustrated guide to the British royal family, this book covers individual members... |
 The Reagan Diaries: Collector's Edition (Leather,Slipcase) |  Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan JonesBest Price: $0.02 Just who does David Cameron think he is? In an engaging series of landmark interviews?that will... |  Odd Destiny the Life of Alexander HamiltonBest Price: $69.24 In this detailed and sympathetic biography Hecht creates a lively impression of both an... |  Complete Idiot's Guide to the American PresidentsBest Price: $12.95 The problem with this book is that if one is not somewhat familiar with U.S. history, there will... |  George Bush: His World War II YearsBest Price: $12.56 September 1944: perched on the wing of his stricken torpedo bomber, 3,000 feet above a Pacific... |
 A Conspiracy So ImmenseBest Price: $13.78 Historian David Oshinsky, Professor of History at Rutgers University, does a masterful job in... |  The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste (P.S.)Best Price: $0.97 Elin McCoy's 'Emperor of Wine' is an absorbing account of the rise of wine critic... |  Napoleon: The Path to PowerBest Price: $14.93 Dwyer dove right into the subject of one of the most magnetic figures in history. After reading... |  Memoirs Of General William T. ShermanBest Price: $13.72 I just finished reading this book (from the library, a 19th century edition) and came to search... |  Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10Best Price: $4.64 First, my son is a Marine and I'm fiercely proud of him and what he's doing, so please... |
 Cleopatra: A LifeBest Price: $17.13 Reality television is incredibly popular and draws millions of viewers each evening. ... |  Flyboys: A True Story of CourageBest Price: $4.48 I have read World War Two history since I was in my teens with a distinct focus on the Pacific... |  DreadnoughtBest Price: $11.85 There's a "v" missing from Robert K. Massie's name. It should be Massive.... |  Eleanor of Aquitaine: A LifeBest Price: $29.96 Alison Weir has written a solid, workmanlike biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a figure of... |  Road SongBest Price: $3.60 My father gave this book to me 6 years ago and and I reread it every few months. The true story... |
 The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (Library of Latin America)Best Price: $4.11 An extraordinary book. One of Oxford University Press' 'Library of Latin America'... |  George Washington's Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary AmericaBest Price: $12.95 For an Architect practicing in any era since Monticello was built, it has always been easy to... |  Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family HistoryBest Price: $29.93 If you were asked what historical New Englander loved solitude and independence, kept a... |  Moses Maimonides: The Man and His WorksBest Price: $65.00 Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works by Herbert A. Davidson (Oxford University Press) offers... |  Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960sBest Price: $8.52 FREEDOM'S ORATOR is a superb book about a major figure from the 1960s. As an historian,... |
 Secular and Nationalist JinnahBest Price: $11.19 Mohammad Ali Jinnah is the most misunderstood and misrepresented figure in the political history... |  Gautama BuddhaBook Review of Gautama Buddha, Iqbal Singh, Oxford University Press Singh wrote this book in... |  The Nehrus: With a New PrefaceBest Price: $7.48 The Nehrus is being revived as a Classic Reissue. This book has established itself as a... |  Robert Knight: Reforming Editor in Victorian IndiaBest Price: $14.00 This volume is a historical biography of Robert Knight--a pioneering editor and the founder of ... |  The Alexiad (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $10.22 this book is interesting only that it is old, survived and was written by a women. if you want... |
 Charles I (Penguin Classic Biography) |  Elizabeth I (Penguin Classic Biography)Jasper Ridley, in this book about the reign of Elizabeth I has some very strong opinions on his... |  The Confessions of Saint AugustineBest Price: $5.00 Garry Wills' translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" brings this work... |  John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual FatherBest Price: $69.95 We heard John Paul the Great as an audio CD read by Peggy Noonan as we drove from Chicago to... |  Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron BurrBest Price: $3.75 Actor and author Scott Brick provides an excellent and powerful narration to the biography of a... |
 Washington: A LifeBest Price: $10.55 "The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington... |  When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir by Bob KerreyBest Price: $0.24 There are some memoirs that enable a reader to see and understand those factors that made the... |  Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than EverBest Price: $2.85 Political pundits and addicts love to rate presidents. Reagan's stock went up immensely when... |  Delta ForceBest Price: $84.98 Col. Charlie Beckwith is the founder and first commanding officer of Special Forces Operational... |  Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for FreedomBest Price: $4.45 Words are not enough to portray the emotion packed into the telling of Zoya's Story. Brought... |
 Today I Am a Ma'am: and Other Musings On Life, Beauty, and Growing OlderBest Price: $1.85 Who wouldn't remember Valerie Harper, television's sweetheart who played Rhoda on the... |  American Guerrilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines (Brasseys Commemorative Series Wwii)Best Price: $46.95 there are books like this one, perhaps now merely for those who are academically interested in... |  God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (Brassey's Commemorative Series, Wwii)Best Price: $24.99 This is one of the best books I've ever read. Very thoroughly documented based on interviews... |  The Romanovs - The Final Chapter |  Patrick Kennedy: The Rise to PowerBest Price: $11.98 As a New Englander who is attending school in Rhode Island, I had hoped that this book would... |
 Hatchepsut: The Female PharaohBest Price: $8.41 `Had Hatchepsut been born a man, her lengthy rule would almost certainly be remembered for its... |  Theodore Roosevelt: An American MindBest Price: $4.75 |  The Life of Margaret Thatcher |  At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A LifeBest Price: $30.00 Although few of us would choose the Marquis de Sade as a friend, there can be no doubt that he... | |
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