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St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
Saint Augustine
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal...
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His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis
Vintage
Vintage
As commander of the Continental army, George Washington united the American colonies, defeated the British army, and became the world's most famous man. But how much do Americans really know about their first president? Today, as Pulitzer...
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Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, Mahadev H. Desai
Beacon Press
Beacon Press
Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain...
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography,...
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The Life of Elizabeth I
Alison Weir
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books
The long life and powerful personality of England's beloved Virgin Queen have eternal appeal, and popular historian Alison Weir depicts both with panache. She's especially good at evoking the physical texture of Tudor England: the elaborate royal...
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Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Bill Clinton
Knopf
Knopf
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by...
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Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Educa Books
Educa Books
The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's childhood, the...
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John Lennon: The Life
Philip Norman
Ecco
Ecco
For more than a quarter century, Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's...
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The Reagan I Knew
William F. Buckley Jr.
Basic Books
Basic Books
In The Regan I Knew , the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House. Ronald Reagan and...
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J. Ellis
Vintage
Vintage
Well timed to coincide with Ken Burns's documentary (on which the author served as a consultant), this new biography doesn't aim to displace the many massive tomes about America's third president that already weigh down bookshelves. Instead, as...
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