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In this bicentennial twin portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, Gopnik shows how these two giants altered the way people think... Pioneer astronaut Eugene Cernan left the last footprint on the Moon as commander of Apollo 17. He now tells his story about the fear, love,...
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have... The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) ofJohn Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had...
France's beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was the subject of ridicule and...
Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikley candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother,... British author Lessing recounts visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, 25 years after her exile from old Southern Rhodesia for opposing the...
With its meticulously documented and compulsively readable portrait of JFK as a man whose reckless personal behavior imperiled his... In this memoir, Ambassador Ray Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the cold war, tracing the life of the conflict from the...
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas--a shadowy figure whose edges... Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in...
The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as "Time" magazine put... This compelling and richly researched book presents a fascinating portrait ofMary Robinson--darling of the London stage, mistress to the...
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