Franklin D. Roosevelt: The War Years, 1939-1945
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Having guided the nation through the worst economic crisis in its history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Pierre Anctil and Vivian Felsen
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
Jane Austen's Letters
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Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and...
Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes
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Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing...
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
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This book is the winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his...
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon
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This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often...
Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe
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Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander,...
Lipman Bers, a Life in Mathematics
Linda Keen, Irwin Kra and Rubi E. Rodriguez
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The book is part biography and part collection of mathematical essays that gives the reader a...
Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement
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Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement....
Monte Hellman: His Life and Films
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In 1970, an LA Times headline called Monte Hellman "Hollywood's Best Kept Secret." More than thirty...