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Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress
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John Quincy Adams is never on any list of great presidents. But he should be near the top of any list of great Americans, right up there with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Joseph Wheelan's excellent new book explains why. Adams had an extraordinary political career, both before and after his single term as pres... »
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
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This was so full of information that I sadly didn't know about William Wilberforce and his accomplishments in England against the slave trade. He was an amazing man and I feel it was so worthwhile to learn about him. What he accomplished in his lifetime while suffering numerous health problems puts most of us to shame.... »
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At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
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So much is made of Tenet, the "Slam Dunk", and his reluctancy to execute operation plans against UBL.
Tenet takes you into the inner circle and gives you his version of Washington politics on several topics. From the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, the War in Afghanistan and Iraq, and his battle against Al Qaeda.
For anyone interested in ... »
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
When I bought this book, I was warned by a cousin of mine, who teaches history at GW, that the book would contain a lot of phsycology, and he was right.
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The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day has long been held to be an important social document as well as a meaningful written Catholic memoir, because it delve... »
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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
This book was very well written. The author made the case that some of the founding fathers were not necessarily Christian, but Deists. His conclusions ... »
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McCain: The Myth of a Maverick
It is incredible how someone who is so hawkish and neoconservative in his approach has been mislabeled as anti-establishment. He is pro-war, but possibly ... »
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Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy
In Lindsay Moran's Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy, the author comes across is an amusingly candid cross between Bridget Jones and James Bon... »
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