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...
Lugs Branigan
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Born in the Liberties of Dublin in 1910, Jim Branigan was, by his own admission, a shy, scrawny...
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
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Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure...