 | The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Andrew Lycett
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $4.63 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: $18.45 / Used from: $5.95 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: $15.00 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: $11.53 / Used from: $5.95 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: $17.82 / Used from: $12.50 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 new: $7.99 / Used from: $7.19 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: $13.96 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: $15.77 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: $17.79 / Used from: $12.39 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: $10.17 / Used from: $4.44 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 new: $17.82 / Used from: $12.57 Makes Watergate look like small stuff. Four stars (see my review).
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 | James A. Garfield (The American Presidents) by Ira Rutkow
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.65 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: $18.21 / Used from: $12.00 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: $19.95 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: $11.86 / Used from: $2.96 A short, concise, excellent little book written in Fussel's beautiful prose. Five stars.
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 | The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young
I've enjoyed other books by Stanley Hirshon, but he seems to have an agenda here to denigrate Young. Not a very objective biography. Two stars (see my review).
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 | Great Harry by Carolly Erickson
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $1.90 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: $24.95 / Used from: $14.97 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: $16.00 / Used from: $2.49 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: $23.07 / 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: $14.78 / Used from: $6.74 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 new: $6.98 / Used from: $3.70 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: $18.48 / Used from: $17.46 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: $17.16 / Used from: $12.95 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: $17.37 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: $13.40 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: $17.82 / Used from: $5.50 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: $11.20 / Used from: $7.95 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: $12.89 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: $14.80 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: $12.89 / Used from: $5.99 An intelligent, well-written, and unbiased history of the Smith family and the early Mormon Church. Four stars.
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