 | Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $4.75 An interesting book detailing how the lawyer Gandhi learned some effective means to fight discrimination in South Africa (before he sought to encourage change later in India).
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Excellent novel about living one's life, narrated in the voice of an English butler & set in the early 20th century.
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 | Waiting: A Novel by Ha Jin
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 A chinese novel that is readable, but hardly captivating.
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 | The Second World War, Volume 6: Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.73 Winston wraps up the war. A fine read.
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 | Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 The details of "character" that led a nation well in the form of Mr. Washington.
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 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $0.66 Great book if you're planning on a visit to Gettysburg and/or if you are a word smith.
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 | Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson by Robert W. Tucker
Buy new: $32.20 / Used from: $1.80 Insight into Tom, albeit in a writing style that is not particularly engaging.
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 | City Life by Witold Rybczynski
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 An architectural/urban historian's thoughts on why American cities look they way they do. Wonderful book.
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 | Wanderer by Sterling Hayden
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $9.78 "The Asphalt Jungle" actor's own life adrift with no anchor. It's rather slow going, especially at first if you have never heard of---and/or are not interested in this actor.
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 | The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.44 A look into the East German "Stasi" secret police by a British journalist; having returned to confront those who informed on him when he was a student in 1970s Berlin.
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 | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.33 Fine journalistic account of the collapse of the USSR.
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 | Ten Years That Shook the World: The Gorbachev Era As Witnessed by His Chief of Staff by Valery Boldin
Buy new: $15.00 Gorbachev's former chief of staff laments the fall of the USSR and accuses his boss of not having much of a clue as to what was trying to be specifically accomplished.
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 | One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $0.01 More insightful writing from this architectural/urban historian. A very short---but thoroughly enjoyable---read; showing how the invention of the simple (but strong) screw made so much possible.
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