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1776by David McCulloughISBN 0743226720 (0-7432-2672-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: '1776'Book summary:In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence-when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books-Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost-Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough's 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history. [via]
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Abraham Lincolnby Kay Winters, Nancy CarpenterISBN 0689825544 (0-689-82554-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abraham Lincoln'Book summary:In a tiny log cabin
a boy listened
with delight
to the storytelling
of his ma and pa.
He traced letters
in sand, snow, and dust.
He borrowed books
and walked miles
to bring them back.
When he grew up,
he became the
sixteenth president
of the United States.
His name was
Abraham Lincoln.
He loved books.
They changed his life.
He changed the world. [via]
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Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biographyby Piers Paul ReadISBN 0743244982 (0-7432-4498-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biographyby Piers Paul ReadISBN 0743207297 (0-7432-0729-7)
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All the President's Menby Bob Woodward, Carl BernsteinISBN 0671894412 (0-671-89441-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the President's Men'Book summary:This landmark book details all the events of the biggest political scandal in the history of this nation--Watergate. Woodward and Bernstein kept the headlines coming, delivering revelation after amazing revelation to a shocked public. Black-and-white photograph section. [via]
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All the President's Menby Carl Bernstein, Bob WoodwardISBN 0684863553 (0-684-86355-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the President's Men'Book summary:The 25th-anniversary edition of Bernstein and Woodward's classic of investigative journalism.
In what must be the most devastating political detective story of the century, two young "Washington Post" reporters whose brilliant investigative journalism smashed the Watergate scandal wide open tell the whole behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.
The story begins with a burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. Bob Woodward, who was then working on the "Washington Post's" District of Columbia staff, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story. Carl Bernstein, a Virginia political reporter on the "Post," was also assigned. The two men soon learned that this was not a simple burglary.
Following lead after lead, Woodward and Bernstein picked up a trail of money, secrecy and high-level pressure that led to the Oval Office and implicated the men closest to Richard Nixon and then the President himself. Over the months, Woodward met secretly with Deep Throat, now perhaps America's most famous still-anonymous source.
Here is the amazing story. From the first suspicions through the tortuous days of reporting and finally getting people to talk, the journalists were able to put the pieces of the puzzle together and produce the stories that won the "Post" a Pulitzer Prize. "All the President's Men" is the inside story of how Bernstein and Woodward broke the story that brought about the President's downfall. This is the reporting that changed the American presidency. [via]
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American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made Itby Richard HofstadterISBN 0679723153 (0-679-72315-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Angela Davis: An Autobiographyby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0717806677 (0-7178-0667-7)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Anthony Powell: A Lifeby Michael BarberISBN 0715630490 (0-7156-3049-0)
Hardcover, Woodstock, NY
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Manby James Weldon JohnsonISBN 0679727531 (0-679-72753-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man'Book summary:With the possible exceptions of Dr. Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois, no African American excelled on as many different levels as James Weldon Johnson. Along This Way--the first autobiography by a person of color to be reviewed in The New York Times--not only chronicles his life as an educator, lawyer, diplomat, newspaper editor, lyricist, poet, essayist, and political activist but also outlines the trials and triumphs of African Americans from post-Reconstruction to the rise and fall of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Florida in 1871 to middle-class West Indian parents, Johnson recognized the challenges and absurdities of segregated America early on. But it was his experience as a tutor to rural blacks while a student at Atlanta University that was to alter the course of his life: "It was this period that marked the beginning of psychological change from boyhood to manhood," he writes. "It was this period that marked also the beginning of my knowledge of my own people as a race."
With a rare blend of pride and humility, Johnson recounts how he, among other accomplishments, became Florida's first black lawyer in 1898, a diplomat in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and lyricist for his brother Rosamond Johnson's famous song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Johnson's commentary on his epochal novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, as well as writings on his works of poetry--The Creation, God's Trombones, and Fifty Years and Other Poems--is priceless. Equally important are the logical and even-tempered opinions on race that he wrote for The New York Age, which offered comprehensive critiques of Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey, along with his analysis of the racial climate while serving as head of the NAACP. This remarkable man left a mark on the 20th century that goes beyond the boundary of race. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Banco:the Further Adventures of Papillon: The Further Adventures of Papillonby Henri CharriereISBN 0688002188 (0-688-00218-8)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Beginningby Kenneth BranaghISBN 0701133880 (0-7011-3388-0)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Best Little Boy in the World : 1998 Editionby John Reid, Andrew TobiasISBN 067960314X (0-679-60314-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945by Leo MarksISBN 068486780X (0-684-86780-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945'Book summary:At the age of 8, Leo Marks discovered the great game of code-making and -breaking in his father's London bookshop, thanks to a first edition of Poe's The Gold-Bug. At 23, as World War II was being played out in earnest, he hoped to use his strengths for the Allies. But Marks's urgent, witty memoir, Between Silk and Cyanide, begins with his failure to get into British Intelligence's cryptographic department. As everyone else on his course heads off to Bletchley Park ("the promised land"), he is sent to what his sergeant terms "some potty outfit in Baker Street, an open house for misfits." In fact, the Special Operations Executive's mandate was, in Churchill's stirring phrase, to "Set Europe Ablaze," and Marks's was to monitor code security so that agents could could report back as safely as possible. When he arrived, the common wisdom was that it was easiest for men and women in the field to memorize and use well-known poems.
Unfortunately, since the Germans had equal access to the classics--"Reference books," Marks quips, "are jackboots when used by cryptographers"--Marks thought agents should write their own poems (or use his) instead, several of which are cheerily obscene. After all, no son or daughter of the Fatherland could ever know the rest of a verse that began "Is de Gaulle's prick / Twelve inches thick," and continued on in a similar, shall we say, vein. But Marks soon felt that original doggerel was just as dangerous, since even slight misspellings could render messages indecipherable and risk agents' lives. His first solution? WOKs (worked-out keys) printed on silk. An operative would use one key, send the message, and immediately tear off the strip. Marks had a hard time proving that swaths of silk would save his people from swallowing their "optional extra," a cyanide pill. His efforts were dead serious, but often landed him in comic terrain.
In one of the book's great set pieces, Marks visits Colonel Wills--surely the model for Ian Fleming's Q--in order to sort out the best ways to print his code keys. Before solving this minor problem (invisible ink!), Wills showed Marks several new projects--one of which involves an exotic array of dung, courtesy of the London Zoo. This gifted gadgetmeister planned to model life-sized reproductions of these droppings and pack them with explosives, personalized for all parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. "Once trodden on or driven over (hopefully by the enemy) the whole lot would go off with a series of explosions even more violent than the ones which had produced it," Marks explains.
Despite such larky sentences and sections, the author never loses sight of the importance of his vocation, and Between Silk and Cyanide is as elegiac as it is engaging. Marks knows when to cut the laugh track, particularly as his book becomes a despairing record of agents blown--lost to torture, prison, the camps, and execution. Readers will never forget the valor of Violette Szabo, Noor Inayat Kahn, and the White Rabbit himself, Flight Lieutenant Yeo-Thomas. Poem-cracking, as Marks again and again makes clear, was far more than a parlor game. --Kerry Fried [via]
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C.T. Studd: Cricketer & Pioneerby Norman P. GrubbISBN 0718816595 (0-7188-1659-5)
Hardcover, Lutterworth P.
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Chesty : The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMCby Jon T. HoffmanISBN 0679447326 (0-679-44732-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chesty : The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC'Book summary:The Marine Corps is known for its heroes, and Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller has long been considered the greatest of them all. His assignments and activities covered an extraordinary spectrum of warfare. Puller mastered small unit guerrilla warfare as a lieutenant in Haiti in the 1920s, and at the end of his career commanded a division in Korea. In between, he chased Sandino in Nicaragua and fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu.
With his bulldog face, barrel chest (which earned him the nickname Chesty), gruff voice, and common touch, Puller becameand has remainedthe epitome of the Marine combat officer. At times Puller's actions have been called into questionat Peleliu, for instance, where, against a heavily fortified position, he lost more than half of his regiment. And then there is the saga of his son, who followed in Chesty's footsteps as a Marine officer only to suffer horrible wounds in Vietnam (his book, Fortunate Son, won the Pulitzer Prize).
Jon Hoffman has been given special access to Puller's personal papers as well as his personnel record. The result will unquestionably stand as the last word about Chesty Puller. [via]More editions of Chesty : The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC:
Colette--the Difficulty of Loving: A Biographyby Margaret CroslandISBN 0672517604 (0-672-51760-4)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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Confessions of an Actor: An Autobiographyby Laurence OlivierISBN 0671779672 (0-671-77967-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custerby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0684832755 (0-684-83275-5)
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D. H. Lawrence: The Married Manby Brenda MaddoxISBN 0671687123 (0-671-68712-3)
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Dancing Naked in the Mind Fieldby Kary MullisISBN 0679774009 (0-679-77400-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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David Brinkleyby David BrinkleyISBN 0679765069 (0-679-76506-9)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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David Brinkley : 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing up in North Carolinaby David BrinkleyISBN 067940693X (0-679-40693-X)
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Diana : Her New Lifeby Andrew MortonISBN 0671533983 (0-671-53398-3)
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Diana: Vrai Histoire/ Diana Her True Storyby Andrew MortonISBN 0684800098 (0-684-80009-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Emperorby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0679722033 (0-679-72203-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Erasmus and the Age of Reformation: With a Selection from the Letters of Erasmusby Johan HuizingaISBN 0691008019 (0-691-00801-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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FDR: A Biographyby Ted MorganISBN 0671628127 (0-671-62812-7)
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First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wivesby Margaret TrumanISBN 0679434399 (0-679-43439-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidentsby Bonnie AngeloISBN 0688156312 (0-688-15631-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Frederick II: A Medival Emperorby David AbulafiaISBN 071399004X (0-7139-9004-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warriorby James I. RobertsonISBN 0679738886 (0-679-73888-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesmanby Ed CrayISBN 0671741241 (0-671-74124-1)
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitutionby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0743223799 (0-7432-2379-9)
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voicesby Xinran, Esther TyldesleyISBN 0701173459 (0-7011-7345-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices'Book summary:For seven years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast between 10 and 12 at night, Words on the Night Breeze soon became famous all over China for its powerful, honest discussions of what it means to be a woman in today's China. It started in 1990, a time when China seemed to be 'opening up', both for the Chinese and for the world. Xinran's programme revealed aspects of women's lives that had never been talked about in public before. She felt as if she was opening a tiny window into a huge fortress whose inhabitants had never before communicated with the outside world. Soon she was receiving over two hundred letters a day from women telling her their stories. She realised that she knew far less than she had thought about what it means to be a Chinese woman and embarked on a journey of discovery to collect their stories. The stories presented here tell of almost inconceivable suffering: rape, sexual abuse, the separation of parents from their children, the suppression of human emotion in order to survive the Communist regime - never before have the tortured souls of Chinese women been laid so bare. And yet this is also a book about love - about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. And then there is Xinran herself: an extraordinary woman who, despite her own unhappy past, has given her life to saving the stories of Chinese women from oblivion,. [via]
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The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marxby Groucho MarxISBN 0671639633 (0-671-63963-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx'Book summary:No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far out for Groucho's spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter's boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot ("I had no idea you were so handsome!"); advising his son on courting a rich dame ("Don't come out bluntly and say, 'How much dough have you got?' That wouldn't be the Marxian way"); crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club ("I don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member"); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce ("There's no reason why I shouldn't appear in Finnegans Wake. I'm certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was"); responding to a scandal sheet ("Gentleman: If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription"); describing himself to the Lunts ("I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there"); and much, much more. That mobile visage, that look of wild amazement, and that weaving cigar are wholly captured, bound but untamed, in The Groucho Letters. [via]
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Gustav Mahlerby Kurt BlaukopfISBN 071390464X (0-7139-0464-X)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Houdini: The Untold Storyby Milbourne ChristopherISBN 0671807307 (0-671-80730-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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How Proust Can Change Your Lifeby Alain De BottonISBN 0679779159 (0-679-77915-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Proust Can Change Your Life'Book summary:This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. [via]
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How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novelby Alain de BottonISBN 0679442758 (0-679-44275-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupieby Pamela Des BarresISBN 068806602X (0-688-06602-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemensby Andrew J. HoffmanISBN 068812769X (0-688-12769-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Jane Austen's Englandby Maggie LaneISBN 0709037090 (0-7090-3709-0)
Softcover, Robert Hale Ltd
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Johnby Cynthia Lennon, Julian LennonISBN 0739325817 (0-7393-2581-7)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Lame Deer Seeker of Visionsby John Lame DeerISBN 0671888021 (0-671-88802-1)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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Leonard Woolf: A Biographyby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0743246535 (0-7432-4653-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Woolf: A Biography'Book summary:Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the "dark star" at the center of the Bloomsbury set, and the definitive portrait of the Woolf marriage. A man of extremes, Leonard Woolf was ferocious and tender, violent and self-restrained, opinionated and nonjudgmental, always an outsider of sorts within the exceptionally intimate, fractious, and sometimes vicious society of brilliant but troubled friends and lovers.
He has been portrayed either as Virginia's saintly caretaker or as her oppressor, the substantial range and influence of his own achievements overshadowed by Virginia's fame and the tragedy of her suicide. But Leonard was a pivotal figure of his age, whose fierce intelligence touched the key literary and political events that shaped the early decades of the twentieth century and would resonate into the post-World War II era.
Glendinning beautifully evokes Woolf 's coming-of-age in turn-of-the-century London. The scholarship boy from a prosperous Jewish family would cut his own path through the world of the British public school, contending with the lingering anti-Semitism of Imperial Age Britain. Immediately upon entering Trinity College, Cambridge, Woolf became one of an intimate group of vivid personalities who would form the core of the Bloomsbury circle: the flamboyant Lytton Strachey; Toby Stephen, "the Goth," through whom Leonard would meet Stephen's sister Virginia; and Clive Bell. Glendinning brings to life their long nights of intense discussion of literature and the vicissitudes of sex, and charts Leonard's course as he becomes the lifelong friend of John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster.
She unearths the crucial influence of Woolf 's seven years as a headstrong administrator in colonial Ceylon, where he lost confidence in the imperial mission, deciding to abandon Ceylon in order to marry the psychologically troubled Virginia Stephen. Glendinning limns the true nature of Leonard's devotion to Virginia, revealing through vivid depiction of their unconventional marriage how Leonard supported Virginia through her breakdowns and in her writing. In co-founding with Virginia the Hogarth Press, he provided a secure publisher for Virginia's own boldly experimental works.
As the éminence grise of the early Labour Party, working behind the scenes,Woolf became a leading critic of imperialism, and his passionate advocacy of collective security to prevent war underpinned the charter of the League of Nations. After Virginia's death, he continued to forge his own iconoclastic way, engaging in a long and happy relationship with a married woman.
Victoria Glendinning's Leonard Woolf is a major achievement -- a shrewdly perceptive and lively portrait of a complex man of extremes and contradictions in whom passion fought with reason and whose far-reaching influence is long overdue for the full appreciation Glendinning offers in this important book. [via]
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Living Well Is the Best Revengeby Calvin TomkinsISBN 0679603085 (0-679-60308-5)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey through Twentieth-Century Philosophyby Colin McGinnISBN 0743231805 (0-7432-3180-5)
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The Man of the Renaissance: Four Lawgivers, Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretinoby Ralph RoederISBN 0678031711 (0-678-03171-1)
Hardcover, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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Manchild in the Promised Landby Claude BrownISBN 0684864185 (0-684-86418-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manchild in the Promised Land'Book summary:"Manchild in the Promised Land" is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem -- the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man. [via]
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazonby Robert WhitakerISBN 0738208086 (0-7382-0808-6)
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 0743250400 (0-7432-5040-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master'Book summary:Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility.
Toibin is "a great and humanizing writer" who describes complex relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose" ("The Washington Post Book World"). In "The Master, " he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages. [via]
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Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsorby Anne EdwardsISBN 0688062725 (0-688-06272-5)
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientistby Richard P FeynmanISBN 0738201669 (0-7382-0166-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend. "In case you are beginning to believe," he says at the start of his final lecture, "that some of the things I said before are true because I am a scientist and according to the brochure that you get I won some awards and so forth, instead of your looking at the ideas themselves and judging them directly...I will get rid of that tonight. I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make." Rare, perhaps. Irreverent, sure. But ridiculous? Not even close. [via]
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Mellon: An American Lifeby David CannadineISBN 0679450327 (0-679-45032-7)
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Napoleon and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo - And the Great Comanders Who Fought Itby Andrew RobertsISBN 0743228324 (0-7432-2832-4)
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Publicly, Bonaparte and Wellington professed to despise each other. "Even in the boldest things he did there was always a measure of ... meanness," said Wellington of the French emperor, adding later, "Bonaparte's whole life, civil, political, and military, was a fraud." Napoleon said that Wellington "has no courage. He acted out of fear. He had one stroke of fortune, and he knows that such fortune never comes twice." Yet the two, writes Roberts, were very much alike: social outsiders who found their greatness in the army, scholars of a sort, who brought scientific rigor to the study of topography and logistics, and men capable of inspiring great heroism in their soldiers.
In the end, Roberts suggests, Wellington won his battle, but Napoleon won the war. This intriguing study shows how, and it affords much insight into the workings of these great rivals' minds. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biographyby Jack HurstISBN 067974830X (0-679-74830-X)
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Nigger: An Autobiographyby Robert Lipsyte, Dick GregoryISBN 0671735608 (0-671-73560-8)
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Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990by Stephen AmbroseISBN 0671792083 (0-671-79208-3)
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Oscar Wilde: A Certain Geniusby Barbara BelfordISBN 0679457348 (0-679-45734-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius'Book summary:Why, readers may ask, yet another book about Oscar Wilde? "Because his life is a continual allegory," the author tells us in her introduction, "and his social, political, and artistic views, which went right to the heart of Victorian society, are no less threatening today." In contrast to earlier biographers like Hesketh Pearson and Richard Ellmann, Belford emphasizes the cultural context in which Wilde (1854-1900) operated as both shrewd self-publicist and provocateur. Researching previous biographies of Violet Hunt and Bram Stoker, Belford immersed herself in the florid atmosphere of London during the 1890s, the decade of Wilde's greatest fame and infamy, and she uses this knowledge to deepen our understanding of the writer's relationship with his times. In particular, the West End theater district comes to life as the scene of Wilde's greatest triumphs as a playwright (from Lady Windermere's Fan to The Importance of Being Earnest) as well as of his introduction to "a homosocial world that had existed since Elizabethan times." Victorian society could not tolerate Wilde's relatively open homosexuality, however, and two 1895 trials ended with his conviction on charges of "gross indecency." He served two years in prison and died three years after his release, exiled, poor, and alone. Yet Belford stresses not Wilde's tragedy but his triumph. To the end, he was a gaily subversive writer whose works "demonstrate the value of graciousness, charm, and wit" even as they assert "the right of art and language to shock, to undermine, and to unsettle." --Wendy Smith [via]
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Past Is Myselfby Christabel BielenbergISBN 0701113332 (0-7011-1333-2)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Pepitaby V. Sackville-WestISBN 0701203315 (0-7012-0331-5)
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The Prince of Wales: A Biographyby Jonathan DimblebyISBN 068812996X (0-688-12996-X)
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Reagan : A Life in Lettersby Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin AndersonISBN 074321966X (0-7432-1966-X)
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Reagan: A Life In Lettersby Ronald Reagan, Martin Anderson, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, George P. ShultzISBN 0743219678 (0-7432-1967-8)
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Rebecca West: A Lifeby Carl RollysonISBN 0684194309 (0-684-19430-9)
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Rockefellers: An American Dynastyby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 0671674455 (0-671-67445-5)
Softcover, Summit Books
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The Rothschilds: A Family Portraitby Frederic MortonISBN 068970657X (0-689-70657-X)
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Some Time with Feynmanby Leonard MlodinowISBN 0713996439 (0-7139-9643-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faithby Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0674821068 (0-674-82106-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sor Juana Or, the Traps of Faith'Book summary:Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of her age.
Her life reads like a novel. A spirited and precocious girl, one of six illegitimate children, is sent to live with relatives in the capital city. She becomes known for her beauty, wit, and amazing erudition, and is taken into the court as the Vicereine's protégée. For five years she enjoys the pleasures of life at court--then abruptly, at twenty, enters a convent for life. Yet, no recluse, she transforms the convent locutory into a literary and intellectual salon; she amasses an impressive library and collects scientific instruments, reads insatiably, composes poems, and corresponds with literati in Spain. To the consternation of the prelates of the Church, she persists in circulating her poems, redolent more of the court than the cloister. Her plays are performed, volumes of her poetry are published abroad, and her genius begins to be recognized throughout the Hispanic world. Suddenly she surrenders her books, forswears all literary pursuits, and signs in blood a renunciation of secular learning. The rest is silence. She dies two years later, at forty-six.
Octavio Paz has long been intrigued by the enigmas of Sor Juana's personality and career. Why did she become a nun? How could she renounce her lifelong passion for writing and learning? Such questions can be answered only in the context of the world in which she lived. Paz gives a masterly portrayal of the life and culture of New Spain and the political and ideological forces at work in that autocratic, theocratic, male-dominated society, in which the subjugation of women was absolute.
Just as Paz illuminates Sor Juana's life by placing it in its historical setting, so he situates her work in relation to the traditions that nurtured it. With critical authority he singles out the qualities that distinguish her work and mark her uniqueness as a poet. To Paz her writings, like her life, epitomize the struggle of the individual, and in particular the individual woman, for creative fulfillment and self-expression.
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Stengel: His Life and Timesby Robert CreamerISBN 0671701312 (0-671-70131-2)
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Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houstonby Marshall De BruhlISBN 0679753028 (0-679-75302-8)
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Tennysonby Peter LeviISBN 068419662X (0-684-19662-X)
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To America : Personal Reflections of an Historianby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0743202759 (0-7432-0275-9)
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Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albertby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0743206096 (0-7432-0609-6)
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The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biographyby Marion MeadeISBN 0684833743 (0-684-83374-3)
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Virginia Woolf:a Biography: A Biographyby Quentin BellISBN 0701202912 (0-7012-0291-2)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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The Walk West: A Walk across America 2by Peter Jenkins, Barbara JenkinsISBN 0688006663 (0-688-00666-3)
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What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?by Jean Fritz, Margot TomesISBN 0698113721 (0-698-11372-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White Houseby Patricia O'TooleISBN 0684864789 (0-684-86478-9)
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Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?by Jean Fritz, Margot TomesISBN 0698114396 (0-698-11439-6)
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Without Lying Down : Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywoodby Cari BeauchampISBN 0684802139 (0-684-80213-9)
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Nowby Maya AngelouISBN 0679427430 (0-679-42743-0)
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