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Governor Jonathan Belcher

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Belcher Foundation:

Seller ID: 115917

ISBN: 0976447371

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Lindbergh

By: A. Scott Berg

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Putnam Adult: September 1998

Seller ID: 21518

ISBN: 0399144498

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bestselling author and National Book Award-winner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to be given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives -- more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams of unpublished letters and diaries -- and to be allowed freely to interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including his children and his widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The result is a brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth.

From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found himself thrust on ...
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John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

By: Aitken

Price: $27.99

Publisher: Crossway: May 2013

Seller ID: 344594

ISBN: 1433541815

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Most Christians know John Newton as the slave ship captain who famously converted to Christ on the high seas and then penned one of the greatest hymns of the faith: "Amazing Grace." Less well-known is Newton's significance in his own day as an evangelical icon, great preacher and theologian, and important influence on abolitionist William Wilberforce. In this fascinating biography, Jonathan Aitken explores many facets of Newton's eventful life story, helping readers better understand his remarkable conversion and passionate fight to end the slave trade. The first modern account to draw on N...
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Nixon: A Life

By: Aitken, Jonathan

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.: April 1994

Seller ID: 349800

ISBN: 0895264897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Life of Washington

By: Anna Reed

Price: $16.99

Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group/Attic Books: November 2009

Seller ID: 320364

ISBN: 0890515786

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A rare, faith-filled historic biography of America's first President, George Washington. In this special edition of a vintage 1842 original, readers will go beyond today's simple footnotes of this great leader, to discover the man behind the title of Father of Our Country.
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Adolf Galland: The Authorised Biography

By: Baker, David

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Combined Publishing: January 1997

Seller ID: 310681

ISBN: 1859150179

Condition: Used - Very Good

This biography is the life story of Germany's most famous World War II air force officer, Adolf Galland. As a fighter ace, he became the youngest general in the Wehrmacht, whose combat career spanned the years from biplanes over Spain to the first operational jet fighters. His command position put him in perilously close contact with the leaders of the Third Reich.
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Abraham Lincoln: A Biography

By: Benjamin Thomas

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Barnes Noble Books: January 1994

Seller ID: 130930

ISBN: 1566193605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Priceless Memories

By: Bob Barker, Digby Diehl

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Center Street: April 2009

Seller ID: 147308

ISBN: 1599951355

Condition: Used - Very Good

Television icon Bob Barker, beloved by millions for his charisma and charm, shares his life - both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
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The Discoverers

By: Boorstin

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vintage: February 1985

Seller ID: 284793

ISBN: 0394726251

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
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George Washington on Leadership

By: Brookhiser, Richard

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Basic Books: May 2008

Seller ID: 319287

ISBN: 0465003028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN LEADERSHIP. Richard Brookhiser's revolutionary biography, Founding Father, took George Washington off the dollar bill and made him live. Now, with his trademark wit and precision, Brookhiser expertly examines the details of Washington's life that fullscale biographies sweep over, to instruct us in true leadership. George Washington on Leadership is a textbook look at Washington's three spectacularly successful careers as an executive: general, president, and tycoon. Brookhiser explains how Washington maximized his strengths and overcame his ...
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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

By: Cohen, Adam

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: January 2009

Seller ID: 327037

ISBN: 159420196X

Condition: Used - Very Good

A revealing account of the critical first days of FDR's presidency, during the worst moments of the Great Depression, when he and his inner circle launched the New Deal and presided over the birth of modern America
"Nothing to Fear" brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history?the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle swept away the old order and reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, thousands of banks had gone under following the Crash of 1929, a quarter of American workers ...
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

By: Dallek, Robert

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 2007

Seller ID: 331395

ISBN: 0060722312

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful figures in America in the second half of the twentieth century. While their personalities could hardly have seemed more different, both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals.

Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified archives, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship and brilliantly analyzes ...
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The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage

By: Daniel Mark Epstein

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books: January 2009

Seller ID: 15534

ISBN: 0345478002

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The Lincolns eclipses earlier accounts with riveting new information that makes husband and wife, president and first lady, come alive in all their proud accomplishments and earthy humanity. Award-winning biographer and poet Daniel Mark Epstein gives a fresh close-up view of the couple's life in Springfield, Illinois (of their twenty-two years of marriage, all but six were spent there), and dramatizes with stunnin...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

By: Dava Sobel

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): November 2000

Seller ID: 4696

ISBN: 0140280553

Condition: Used - Very Good

-- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists
-- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
-- Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and the American Library Association
-- Longitude sold more than 300,000 copies in paperback and spent 25 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list
-- The Penguin edition features a stunning package with a beautiful step...
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Eisenhower at War 1943-1945

By: David Eisenhower

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Random House: August 1986

Seller ID: 20754

ISBN: 0394412370

Condition: Used - Very Good

Andrew Carnegie

By: David Nasaw

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: October 2006

Seller ID: 144825

ISBN: 1594201048

Condition: Used - Very Good

Celebrated historian David Nasaw brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists.
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 0001

Seller ID: 40636

ISBN: 0684824906

Condition: Used - Very Good

Winner of the Lincoln Prize

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had ...
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Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht

By: Dorr, Robert F.,Jones, Thomas D.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Zenith Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 341804

ISBN: 0760329184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hell Hawks sets a new standard for histories of the tactical anti-war in Europe. Veteran authors Bob Dorr and Tom Jones combine masterfully crafted veteran interviews with the broader picture of the air war fought by the Thunderbolt men. You gain a new appreciation of just how tough their deadly task was, and the courage needed to fly close air support against the Nazi fighters and flak. This outstanding book raises the bar on aviation history as it brings alive the true story of an aerial band of brothers." - Colonel Walter J. Boyne, National Aviation Hall of Famer, former dir...
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Rise to Greatness

By: Drehle

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: November 2012

Seller ID: 286168

ISBN: 080507970X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation's history
As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and commanding position on the battlefield had a clear view to victory. To a remarkable extent, the survival of the country depended on the judgment, cunning, and resilience of the unschooled frontier lawyer who had recently been e...
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Robert Persons: The Biography of an Elizabethan Jesuit, 1546-1610 (How to Play Black Gospel)

By: Edwards, Francis

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources: January 1995

Seller ID: 317282

ISBN: 1880810107

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Category: Historical Biographies