History Makers
These denizens of history left an indelible mark on the present.
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Hitler:
1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw(Preface) |
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W.W. Norton & Company Hardcover - 845 pages (January 1, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Noted for his excellent structural explanation of the Third Reich's political culture in The Hitler Myth, eminent historian Ian Kershaw shifts approach in this innovative biography of the Nazi tyrant. The first of a two-volume study, Hubris is far from a simple rehearsal of "great man" history,... Read more
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George
III : A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert |
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Basic Books Hardcover - 400 pages 1 Us Ed edition (March 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Clearly and engagingly written, with evident affection for his subject, Christopher Hibbert's George III describes the life and times of the man widely believed to have mistaken an oak tree for the king of Prussia. He didn't. That is just one of many rumors spread by courtiers during his first bout... Read more
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Prince
of Pleasure : The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency by Saul David |
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Atlantic Monthly Pr Hardcover - 496 pages (March 1999) |
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| Amazon.com When the future British monarch George IV (1762-1830) was a lad of 15, his head instructor predicted the Prince of Wales "will either be the most polished gentleman or the most accomplished blackguard in Europe, possibly an admixture of both." It was, as historian Saul David notes, "a particularly... Read more
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Years
of Renewal by Henry A. Kissinger |
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Simon & Schuster Hardcover - 1151 pages (March 1999) |
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| Amazon.com There is an old joke that Henry Kissinger is so full of himself he once wrote a book called Famous People Who Have Met Me. That strong sense of self is on full display in this third volume of memoirs (the other two are White House Years and Years of Upheaval). Kissinger, a national security advisor... Read more
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Morgan
: American Financier by Jean Strouse |
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Random House Hardcover - 796 pages (April 1999) |
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| Amazon.com As Americans cope with the social and industrial changes wrought by the computer age, we seem ready to view with more sympathy the men who shaped the similarly disruptive economic revolution at the turn of the last century. Less than a year after Titan, Ron Chernow's sweeping biography of capitalist... Read more
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Eleanor
Roosevelt: Volume 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook |
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Viking Pr Hardcover - 686 pages Vol 2 (June 1999) |
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| Amazon.com With its gripping tale of a privileged ugly duckling turned socially conscious swan with the help of strong female friends--many of whom were lesbians and one of whom was probably her lover--the first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt won awards and made headlines. That... Read more
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The
Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Modern Library) by Abraham Lincoln, et al |
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Modern Library Hardcover - 912 pages Reprint edition (June 1999) |
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| Amazon.com He was the most eloquent of American presidents, with the possible exception of FDR, and the moral vision that sustained the nation during the Civil War illuminates nearly every page in this hefty collection of Abraham Lincoln's speeches, writings, and correspondence. It's not just the famous... Read more
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Sons
and Brothers : The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy by Richard D. Mahoney |
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Arcade Pub Hardcover - 441 pages (August 1999) |
$19.57 $8.38 Click here for more info |
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| Amazon.com This intriguing book brings a fresh perspective to bear on the intimate, charged partnership of John and Robert Kennedy. The author, Richard D. Mahoney, whose father was a friend of Bobby's and an appointee of Jack's, has both the academic and political experience necessary to evaluate evidence of... Read more
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Jefferson
Abroad (Modern Library) by Thomas Jefferson, et al |
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Modern Library Hardcover - 672 pages (September 1999) |
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| Amazon.com The man who penned the sweeping words of America's Declaration of Independence was nonetheless a natural pragmatist who preferred details to grandiose statements. That is one of the enjoyable revelations contained in this collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings during the years 1784 to 1789, when... Read more
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Harp
Song for a Radical : The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs by Marguerite Young, Charles Ruas (Editor) |
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Knopf Hardcover - 656 pages (September 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Don't pick up this fascinating, deeply eccentric book expecting to find a conventional biography of Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926). The fiery American labor leader who founded the Socialist Party of America is not so much the subject as the central figure in a group portrait of utopian... Read more
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Lawrence
: The Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher |
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Overlook Press Hardcover (September 1999) |
$26.57 $11.38 Click here for more info |
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| Amazon.com Thomas Edward Lawrence was born illegitimate in 1888, "the son of unmarried parents who had vanished from one life to recreate themselves in another." (His father left four daughters, a marriage, and a hefty inheritance in Dublin to start a new life in England with the woman who'd been his... Read more
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Mandela
: The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson |
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Knopf Hardcover - 688 pages (September 1999) |
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| Amazon.com British journalist Anthony Sampson first met Nelson Mandela in 1951, when Sampson was editing a black magazine in Johannesburg, and his biography of the leader benefits greatly from his long familiarity with South Africa and his access to the 81-year-old statesman's unpublished letters and... Read more
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Dutch
: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris |
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Random House Hardcover - 874 pages (September 1999) (September 30, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Why did Pulitzer-winning Theodore Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris controversially choose to write his authorized biography of Ronald Reagan in the form of a historical novel? There's a clue in a quote the book attributes to Jane Wyman, Reagan's first wife. As Ronnie speechified about the Red... Read more
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Eisenhower by Geoffrey Perret |
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Random House Hardcover - 672 pages 1 Ed edition (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com It's no surprise that the biographer of Douglas MacArthur and Ulysses S. Grant clearly conveys the military talents that enabled Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) to ensure the Allies' victory in World War II, but Geoffrey Perret is equally perceptive when dealing with the personality behind the... Read more
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Hitler's
Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell |
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Viking Pr Hardcover - 430 pages (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com This devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly critical tone. After World War II, murmurs of Pacelli's callous... Read more
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Mao
Zedong (Penguin Lives) by Jonathan D. Spence |
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Viking Pr Hardcover - 160 pages (November 1999) |
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| Amazon.com From humble beginnings in rural Hunan, Mao Zedong became the "Great Helmsman" of Communist China. By the time he died in 1976, he had profoundly changed the course of history. His increasingly erratic whims and graspings at a wild utopia destabilized his immense achievements, and he was ultimately... Read more
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