Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters
Andrew Donskov, John Woodsworth, Arkadi Klioutchanski and Liudmila Gladkova
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Both Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844-1919) were...
Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man
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Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time,...
Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation
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Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the alleged...
Russia's Uncommon Prophet: Father Aleksandr Men and His Times
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This lucidly written biography of Aleksandr Men examines the familial and social context from which...
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
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David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to...
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father
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For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757,...
Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President
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Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: "There is no other period in the...
Brave Faces
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Brave Faces is Mary Arden's story as she moves from her privileged English upbringing to dealing...
Epic Survival: Extreme Adventure, Stone Age Wisdom, and Lessons in Living from a Modern Hunter-Gatherer
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Early on in his life, Matt craved a return to nature. When he became an adult, he took the plunge to...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: An Intellectual Biography
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After the triumph of his intellectual biography, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now...