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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
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Warren Zimmerman uses short but trenchant bios of five important American decision makers and opinion leaders to tell a story about the beginnings of the American empire. John Hay, Navy Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt are the principal actors. These men provided the intellectual atmosphere and t... »
Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art (Revised Edition)
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This minutely reported book is as much a portrait of the frenzied, prodigal New York art world of the 1980s as it is a biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose at age 27 in 1988. Basquiat, one of very few African American artists to acquire an international reputation, left a thick web of dealers, collectors, friends, lovers, pain... »
Merriam-Webster's Pocket Biographical Dictionary (Pocket Reference Library)
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This handy little reference reads like a virtual who's who of world history. Whether you want to know the date Napoleon died or just the names of some of Chekhov's most famous plays, you'll find what you're looking for in this book's pocket-sized pages. More than 7,000 entries chronicle the lives, deaths, and achievements of historical figures from Att... »
Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internmen
"Topaz Moon" is a slim little book that is filled with a selection of the interment imagery of Chiura Obata. The imagery is both in his writings and in hi... »
HOUSE CALLS and HITCHING POSTS
This is an excellent book. I have recommended it to one of my colleagues who is a recognized authority on the history of medicine. Dr. Lehman comes acro... »
Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Intervi
"What is it about interviews that attracts us?" Margaret Atwood asks in her introduction to this collection of 16 interviews from The Paris Review... »
A World of Ideas : The Dictionary of Important
Sure, you can throw around words like deconstruction and solipsism in conversation, and pick up what you need to know about them from contex... »
Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
When he was 10 years old, the author watched as his brother Michael lost his mind. High on LSD and screaming uncontrollably because God was torturing hi... »
In the Black: A History of African Americans on
I found the information in this book very informative and surprising that black participation in finance went back as far as it did. Stories of black sto... »
Hubener vs. Hitler: A Biography of Helmuth Hube
What a great book. I got it faster than I expected, and in the very best condition possible. My chilren and I love it. Anyone interested in learning mo... »
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