 | Nixon Volume I by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy used from: $0.90 First volume of the best and most obejective biography of President Nixon. Covers his early years up to the Vice-Presidency.
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 | Nixon, Vol. 2: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy used from: $4.42 Vloume II: from the 1960 election to his re-election as President in 1972.
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 | Nixon, Vol. 3: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990 by Stephen Ambrose
Buy used from: $7.36 Volume III: Watergate, Resignation and stunning comeback as elder statesman and writer.
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 | Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $7.50 Volume I of the latest research biography of the German Fuhrer. From poor artist, WWI corporal to the Nazis rise to power in 1933.
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 | Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.44 Volume II: Annexation of Austria, beginning of WWII and final defeat in his Berlin Bunker.
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 | Mussolini: A Biography by Dennis Mack Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 Written by a noted British historian of Italian history.
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 | Franco a Biography by Paul Preston
Buy used from: $12.95 Major biography of the Spanish general who thwarted the Red Republic and modernized the Spanish economy.
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| Peron: A BIOGRAPHY by Joseph Page
Buy used from: $4.95 Brilliant Argentine politician who made a comeback after the coup against him in 1952.
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| Trujillo;: The life and times of a Caribbean dictator by Robert D Crassweller
Buy used from: $74.41 Bio of the Dominican Republic's strongman. Read also Vargas Llosa's fictional account, "The Feast of the Goat".
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 | Fulgencio Batista: Volume 1, From Revolutionary to Strongman by Frank Argote-Freyre
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $2.55 Life of a lowly Cuban sergeant who went on to become Rerpublican Cuba's most influential politician.
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 | Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant by Humberto Fontova
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $0.99 Cuba's Red Nightmare. How this commie continues to hold admiration over liberals here in the USA.
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 | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Buy used from: $4.83 The Red Tyrant whose gulags killed millions of his own people.
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 | Napoleon by Vincent Cronin
Buy used from: $15.35 A very well written biopgraphy of the French Emperor. A personal account of his life and he is not painted as a monster, very objective.
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 | The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $3.20 Perhaps the best Roman Catholic auto-biography of the 20th cenutry.
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 | St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi: With Introductions by Ralph McInerny and Joseph Pearce by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.00 Dual biography of the Poorman of Assisi and the intellectual giant who reconciled faith with reason.
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 | Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father : Being the Narratives Compiled by the Servant of God Alexander Concerning His Spiritual Father
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $8.25 LIfe of Russian Orthodox priest who could read hearts and guided his children after he was released from the Soviet gulags. Very inspirational.
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 | Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.22 Prize-winning, best single volume of President Lincoln.
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 | Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $2.95 Touching story of the last tsar and his family. They were recently canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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 | Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography by Jack Hurst
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.79 The original Confederate Wizard of the Saddle and the best cavalryman of the Civil War.
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 | The Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria by Greg King
Buy used from: $13.77 Last king of Bavaria and patron and friend of Richard Wagner.
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 | The Emperor Constantine (Phoenix Giants) by Michael Grant
Buy used from: $50.00 Roman historian writes about St. Constantine the Great.
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 | Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James Robertson
Buy new: $31.02 / Used from: $14.97 Biography of one of America's greatest generals.
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 | Elder Ambrose of Optina by Sergius Chetverikov
Buy used from: $60.00 Life of St. Ambrose of Optina, the saitn who inspired Dostoevsky's Elder Zossima in "The Brothers Karamzov".
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 | The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII) by Guy Sajer
Buy used from: $3.09 Best autobiography I have ever read. Guy Sajer was a French-German soldier who witnessed the horrors of the Eastern Front.
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 | The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius
Buy used from: $0.01 The scandalous lives of the first twelev emperors of Rome.
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