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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower's inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed-and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood,...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period of his life...
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Brutal." - Huffington Post "Scathing." - New York Post "[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." - Politico "So many revelations."...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid
Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...
The Warrior Queens
This is an examination of those women in history that have both ruled and led in war. From Boadicea to Margaret Thatcher, the author compares and contrasts the various styles...
Rage
Bob Woodward's second global bestseller on the Trump presidency, based on in-depth research and interviews with the president. Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the...
Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
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After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy....
The Uncanny
Translated by David McLintock and introduced by Hugh Haughton. An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily...
Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without
A unique collection of life lessons from renowned chef and humanitarian Jose Andres Jose Andres is a chef, entrepreneur, author, TV host, and tireless humanitarian leader across the globe. A...
Joe Biden: American Dreamer
The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the...
Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask
The book titled Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask by the author Ronald W. Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of...
The Lives of the Caesars
A masterful translation of Suetonius' renowned biographies of the twelve Caesars, by the award-winning historian and The Rest Is History podcaster Tom Holland The ancient Roman empire was the supreme...
Oceans of Love: Narrelle - An Australian Nurse in World War I
Based on 70 unusually vivid letters home, Melanie Oppenheimer traces the life of an intrepid and extraordinary young Australian woman who took herself off in 1915 to nurse on the...
The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest
"The Lies of Sarah Palin" is the first full-scale critical biography of the former vice-presidential candidate, up through her resignation as Alaska governor, and as a potential presidential candidate in...
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie...
Darwin and Evolution
Charles Darwin's formulation of the theory of evolution with its now commonplace central idea of the 'survival of the fittest' is today - if not fully proven - generally accepted...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
The Life of Henrietta Anne: Daughter of Charles I
Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil...
Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age
'Masterly.' - Daily Mail 'Stunning.' - History Today 'Magnificent.' - Literary Review Napoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria,...
The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg
A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war...
Sade's Wife: The Woman Behind the Marquis
The Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and his cruelty to women, nonetheless lived a life dominated by them - his charismatic mother, iron-willed mother-in-law, and his wife....
The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern
When did Russia lose its chance of freedom? 1990: As a new openness sweeps Russia, a talented young physicist, Boris Nemtsov, begins his career in politics. Charismatic, confident, liberal and...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner
A cinematic memoir of justice and redemption that traces a former Black Panther's tumultuous life from gang member to Black liberation leader. Russell Shoatz was a gang member from age...
Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes
...well documented and researched...Boxes is definitely a fascinating read and a must read for anyone who is at all curious about Howard Hughes' life. New witnesses have come forward with...
Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who
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A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures This is how Emmanuel Carrere, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes...
John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister
John Key has been called a political phenomenon. Having scaled the heights of one career, as a foreign currency trader, he came home from the world's financial capitals to start...
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions...
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
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The book titled Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by the author Professor of English Jeremy Treglown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe,
A dazzling study of four figures who flourished in - and defined - the early years of the twentieth century. In his account of four characters, each of whose importance...
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin
When Stalin came to power, making music became a dangerous endeavour. Russian composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for...
The Dangerous Otto Katz: The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy
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The FBI's file on the Soviet spy Otto Katz (1893-1952) called him an extremely dangerous man. This label doesn't even begin to tell the story. Katz, a daring and treacherous...
The Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles Joseph de Ligne (1735-1814)
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he...
Samuel Pepys: A Life
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Best known for diaries that chronicle in brilliant detail his life and times during the turbulence of Restoration England, Samuel Pepys was an extraordinary man in an extraordinary time--member of...
A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the
The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly woven together by celebrated chronicler of European history Caroline Moorehead Corruption,...
The Women
Imaginative, brilliant and daring- Hilton Als's now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als explores-with breath...
Radical Diplomat: Life of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Lord Inverchapel,
Lord Inverchapel was a key figure in British foreign policy and diplomacy during Great Britain's twilight as a great power. His early diplomatic service postings included Berlin, Washington, and the...
Ivan Bunin: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs: Vol 3: The
In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...
LBJ: Architect of American Ambition
Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared...
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald
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This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of...
An Uncommon Woman: Princess Vicky
Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...
A Question of Character: John F. Kennedy in Image and Reality
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Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...
To Arras, 1917: A Volunteer's Odyssey
A biography of the author's uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in...
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
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Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, "The Orientalist" traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling...
The Time of My Life
An autobiography of Britain's foremost politician who, in his range of interests, in the brilliance of his mind, and in his ability to write is probably unique among figures in...