Marie-Antoinette - The Making of a French Queen by John Hardman
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A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queenWho was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, Joh ...Show more
The Chief : The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw
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Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is "an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . . of the most powerful publisher America has ever known" (New York Tim ...Show more
Personal History by Katharine Graham
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - PULTIZER PRIZE WINNER - The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and WatergateIn this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a won ...Show more
Clement Attlee : The Inevitable Prime Minister by Michael Jago
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Drawing largely on Attlee's writings, speeches and letters, this book traces the life of a middle-class lawyer's son who, appalled by living conditions in London's East End, relentlessly pursued his ambition to lead a government that would implement far-reaching socialist reform and change forever the d ...Show more
Fathers and Sons - The Autobiography of a Family
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Leonard Woolf - A Life by Victoria Glendinning
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness, depicted in films like "The Hours". Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's biography, for the first time we see the whole man. ...Show more
Josiah Wedgewood - Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment by Brian Dolan
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
His Way - A Biography of Robert Muldoon by Barry Gustafson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
This authorized biography of a dominant figure in New Zealand political life since the mid-20th century, is based on many hours of conversation with Robert Muldoon himself, and interviews with political colleagues, civil servants, family and friends.
HOBSON : GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND 1840-1842 by PAUL MOON
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