 | The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Andrew Lycett
Buy new: $25.65 / Used from: $1.28 An excellent biography of Conan Doyle -- five stars (see my review).
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 | Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $4.30 Brilliant first book -- five stars (see my review).
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 | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 One of the best books I've ever read. Gripping. Easily five stars.
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 | Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $0.03 I was a bit disappointed in this book, though others praised it. Three stars (see my review).
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 | Walt Whitman: A Life (Perennial Classics) by Justin Kaplan
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $1.38 An excellent biography of the Good Gray Poet. Five stars.
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 | Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson by Alan Pell Crawford
Buy new: $19.71 / Used from: $2.39 Interesting look at Jefferson's years after he left the White House. Four stars (see my review).
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 | When Chicago Ruled Baseball: The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906 by Bernard A. Weisberger
Buy used from: $5.17 A light, brief, entertaining history of the 1906 World Series. Four stars.
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 | This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $2.00 Important, insightful, well-written look at the effects of so many deaths on the living. Five stars (see my review).
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 | Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $4.99 Gruesome, compelling tale of the Donner Party. Five stars (see my review).
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 | Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
Buy new: $23.04 / Used from: $1.96 After the White House, Quincy Adams spent 17 years in the Congress. These are the greatest years of a great career. I loved this book. Five Stars (see my review)
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 | Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.98 An excellent biography of the brilliant Miss Austen. Five stars (see my review).
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 | The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country by Laton McCartney
Buy used from: $3.38 Makes Watergate look like small stuff. Four stars (see my review).
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 | James A. Garfield: The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881 by Ira Rutkow
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $6.63 An interesting biography which focuses on Garfield's assassination. Four stars (see my review).
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 | 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.50 An interesting, well-written book, but with a number of errors. Four stars (see my review).
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 | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) by Daniel Walker Howe
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $9.38 What Howe hath wrought is a magnificent book, more than worthy of the Pulitzer Prize in history, which it recently won. Five stars (see my review).
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 | The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (Modern Library Chronicles) by Paul Fussell
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.49 A short, concise, excellent little book written in Fussel's beautiful prose. Five stars.
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 | Great Harry by Carolly Erickson
Buy new: $15.26 / Used from: $0.78 An outstanding, human portrait of Henry VIII. Five Stars.
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 | John Dooley, Confederate Soldier: His War Journal by John Dooley
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $23.95 A fascinating Civil War journal with an outstanding first-hand account of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. Five stars. (see my review).
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 | 1831: Year of Eclipse by Louis P. Masur
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $5.52 An excellent, insightful, entertaining examination of a remarkable year in U.S. history. Five stars.
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 | Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies by William C. Kashatus
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $17.50 A fun and interesting trip down memory lane for a Phillies fan. Five stars.
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 | The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft: Revised Edition by Claire Tomalin
Buy new: $18.12 / Used from: $4.05 Magnificent biography by the wonderful Claire Tomalin, one of my favorite biographers. I learned much about a woman I knew almost nothing about. Five stars.
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 | Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy used from: $2.48 Nathaniel Philbrick is an excellent storyteller. Here he relates the tale of a miraculous exploration expedition conducted by the U.S. government in 1838-1842. The expedition is forgotten today. Five stars (All of his books are five stars.)
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 | The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage by Daniel Mark Epstein
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $2.83 What a magnificent, beautifully written book! Highly recommended! Five stars (See my review).
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 | My Father's Country: Story of a German Family by Wibke Bruhns
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $4.31 An intimate, compelling look at one family's descent into Nazism. Five stars (see my review).
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 | Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star by Tom Swift
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.75 Tom Swift has done a great service by bringing Chief Bender's life to print. Four stars (see my review).
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 | The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $3.20 What a magnificent book! It should be required reading for Barack Obama and John McCain and anyone else who runs for president. Five Stars (see my review).
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 | America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation by Jim Rasenberger
Buy new: $21.28 / Used from: $2.34 A fast-paced, well-written look at when the U.S. entered the modern age. Five stars.
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 | Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America by Andrew Ferguson
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $3.03 An interesting jaunt that examines Abe's influence on modern America. Four stars.
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 | General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse by Joseph Glatthaar
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $0.49 An excellent study of that amazing army. Five stars (see my review).
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 | American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $5.34 The compelling, sordid tale of "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" and the men who took advantage of her. Five stars.
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 | Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $5.26 An intelligent, well-written, and unbiased history of the Smith family and the early Mormon Church. Four stars.
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 | A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West by James Donovan
Buy new: $17.81 / Used from: $5.99 An outstanding narrative history of the massacre at the Little Bighorn. Five Stars.
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 | Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life by Robert M. Utley
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $1.56 An interesting tale of the real Kid. Four stars.
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 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $1.50 I always meant to read this book. It was very good, but not as great as I imagined. Four stars.
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 | Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
Buy new: $14.41 / Used from: $1.71 I very much enjoyed this entertaining, informative biography, written in lively prose. Five stars.
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 | Samuel Johnson. by John WAIN
Buy used from: $20.87 This gem of a book is scholarly, yet insightful, and written in lively, beautifully crafted prose. Easily five stars (see my review).
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 | The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Martin Dugard
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $6.95 Martin Dugard's disappointing follow-up to his excellent The Last Voyage of Columbus. Three stars (see my review).
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 | William Tyndale: A Biography (Yale Nota Bene) by Professor David Daniell
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.75 An excellent biography of a man inspired by God and willing to pay with his life for what he believed. Five stars.
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 | American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.70 Reads like a novel, but this is supposed to be history. How can Blum know that a man in 1911 felt the breeze on his face? How can he know how someone felt? Three stars.
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