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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : And Selections from His Other Writingsby Benjamin Franklin, Stacy SchiffISBN 0679641033 (0-679-64103-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : And Selections from His Other Writings'Book summary:Franklins Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history, both personal and national, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian tact, gleaming under an air of Arcadian unaffectedness. [via]
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Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of America : Franklin's French Adventure 1776-85by Stacy SchiffISBN 0747579636 (0-7475-7963-6)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Dr. Franklin Goes to Franceby Stacy SchiffISBN 0747569231 (0-7475-6923-1)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And the Birth of Americaby Stacy SchiffISBN 0805080090 (0-8050-8009-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And the Birth of America'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin began the "the most taxing assignment of his life" at the age of 70: to secure the aid of the French monarchy in helping the fledgling United States establish their republic. The job required tremendous skill, finesse, and discretion, and as Stacy Schiff makes clear in this brilliant book, Franklin was the ideal American, perhaps the only one, to take on the task, due in large part to his considerable personal prestige. One of the most famous men in the world when he landed in France in December 1776, his arrival caused a sensation--he was celebrated as a man of genius, a successor to Newton and Galileo, and treated as a great dignitary, even though the nation he represented was less than a year old and there were many doubts as to whether it would see its second birthday. Though he had no formal diplomatic training and spoke only rudimentary French, Franklin managed to engineer the Franco-American alliance of 1778 and the peace treaty of 1783, effectively inventing American foreign policy as he went along, in addition to serving as chief diplomat, banker, and director of American naval affairs.
Franklin recognized and accepted the fact that French aid was crucial to American independence, but some Founding Fathers resented him for making America dependent on a foreign power and severely attacked him for securing the very aid that saved the cause. Schiff offers fascinating coverage of this American infighting, along with the complex political intrigue in France, complete with British spies and French double agents, secret negotiations and backroom deals. A Great Improvisation is an entertaining and illuminating portrait of Franklin's seven-year adventure in France that "stands not only as his greatest service to his country but the most revealing of the man." --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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- A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America: ISBN 0805066330 (0-8050-6633-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry - A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And the Birth of America: ISBN 0786278323 (0-7862-7832-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And the Birth of America: ISBN 0805080090 (0-8050-8009-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
- A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America: ISBN 0805066330 (0-8050-6633-0)
Saint-Exupery : A Biographyby Stacy SchiffISBN 0712674942 (0-7126-7494-2)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint-Exupery, a Biography'Book summary:Provides an in-depth study of the swashbuckling life and writing career of Antoine de Saint-Exupe+a7ry, discussing his role as a pioneering aviator, disastrous marriage, complex personal life, and literary work, including the classic, The Little Prince. 12,500 first printing. [via]
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- Saint-Exupery: ISBN 0805079130 (0-8050-7913-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Saint-Exupery: A Biography: ISBN 0306807408 (0-306-80740-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - Saint Exupery: A Biography: ISBN 0679308229 (0-679-30822-9)
Softcover, Random House of Canada, Limited - Saint-Exupery : A Biography: ISBN 0679403108 (0-679-40310-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Saint-Exupery : A Biography: ISBN 0701160896 (0-7011-6089-6)
Hardcover, Random House - Saint-Exupery, a Biography: ISBN 0712674942 (0-7126-7494-2)
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- Saint-Exupery: ISBN 0805079130 (0-8050-7913-0)
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Vera - Mrs. Vladimir Nabokovby Stacy SchiffISBN 0375755349 (0-375-75534-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): A Biography'Book summary:She was wearing a black satin mask when they first met in 1923, and in a sense she wore a mask--that of the dutiful wife and helpmeet--throughout their 52-year marriage. Especially after the American publication of Lolita made her husband notorious in 1958, Véra Nabokov's presence at her husband's side was crucial, writes her biographer Stacy Schiff: "[It] kept the fiction in its place, reassured readers ... that Nabokov's perversities were of a different kind." But Véra Slonim (1902-91) was essential to Vladimir Nabokov's literary career from the beginning. She had a gift for handling practical matters that her spouse proudly lacked; she screened him from his publishers and his admirers with equal firmness, and in doing so she liberated him to fulfill the artistic genius they both believed he possessed. Praised for a previous biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Schiff here cements her reputation as a literary biographer of striking subtlety and perceptiveness. She establishes a strong base in chapter 1 with her excellent analysis of Véra Slonim's youth in a privileged Russian Jewish family in St. Petersburg. She then pursues her subject's elusive personality through hints in Nabokov's work and the comments of friends and colleagues. Schiff's elegant prose and eye for nuance nearly match Nabokov himself in this lucid, unsentimental portrait of a marriage. --Wendy Smith [via]
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- Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): ISBN 0330346733 (0-330-34673-3)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Vera - Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov: ISBN 0679310428 (0-679-31042-8)
Softcover, Random House of Canada, Limited - Vera : (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): ISBN 0330376748 (0-330-37674-8)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan - Vera - Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov: ISBN 0679310150 (0-679-31015-0)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited - Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): A Biography: ISBN 0375755349 (0-375-75534-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) : Portrait of a Marriageby Stacy SchiffISBN 0679447903 (0-679-44790-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Vera. Senora de Nabokov / Vera. Nabokov's wifeby Stacy SchiffISBN 8420644382 (84-206-4438-2)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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