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 My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John AdamsBest Price: $21.92 I am very pleased with the quality of this book. I watched the John Adams series on HBO and... |  The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John AdamsBest Price: $17.75 It is a very good book, the reading is really good!!! I loved reading the letters between... |  The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest InventorsBest Price: $10.13 Fairly late in this history of science, John Gribbon quotes Arthur Holmes (who developed Alfred... |  Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue)Best Price: $12.22 this is the best and most easily understood bio of St Augustine, I love it. |  Confessions of Saint Augustine (Image Book)Best Price: $5.00 Any edition of Confessions of Saint Augustine is "must" reading for anyone who has... |
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 Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in CongressBest Price: $12.45 Wheelan has written an excellent book on the post-presidential career of John Quincy Adams. Some... |  Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the RevolutionBest Price: $18.15 I found this book to be a fantastic read! Out of the many, this is the book I chose to read... |  Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de GaulleBest Price: $4.35 If you're feeling in need of a hero, Paul Johnson has a few on offer. The 30 mini-portraits... |  My View from the CornerBest Price: $10.05 An execrable job of juvenile and intrusive overwriting by "as told to" writer Bert... |  The Confessions of St. Augustine (Signet Classics)Best Price: $3.24 I recently reread "The Confessions of St. Augustine" after many years and am glad that... |
 John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private LifeBest Price: $19.33 A great biography on John Quincy Adams. The author thoroughly went through everything from... |  Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern TurkeyBest Price: $10.96 Andrew Mango has obviously done a great deal of research into his fascinating subject. The book... |  Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days (Childhood of Famous Americans)Best Price: $1.99 Abigail Adams life was a miracle. The book was so good, that I did not want to finish it. So I... |  Abigail Adams: A Revolutionary American Woman (Library of American Biography Series) (3rd Edition) (Library of American Biography)Best Price: $14.99 I was very pleased with the timing and condition of this book. I will look forward to shopping... |  A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916 (Borzoi Books)Best Price: $16.89 This is the real deal when it comes to deep, satisfying biographies. Written by a true expert,... |
 Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John AdamsBest Price: $8.44 Ellis' biography of John Adams, one of the earliest published portraits of the Founding Fathers... |  The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, And Thomas Jefferson (Richard Lectures for 1975, University of Virginia)Best Price: $11.44 Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In... |  Saint Augustine: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies)Best Price: $4.94 It's hard to love St. Augustine. Even as one of the most influential religious thinkers in the... |  Alexander the Great: Son of the GodsBest Price: $8.00 Easy to read and go thru without all the dryness of a lot of history books. I would highly... |  King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American HeroBest Price: $3.97 When boxing mattered, boxers were more than pugilists trying to break each other's wills; they... |
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 Alexander The Great: Selections From Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, And Quintus CurtiusBest Price: $8.99 This compelation of exerpts from all the major ancient sources that realte to Alexander the... |  Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History)Best Price: $7.89 Overall Ferling gives a good read. The book is detailed in many areas and does provide a... |  A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John NashBest Price: $0.80 I read this book about two weeks ago, and I couldn't put it down. Maybe my opinion is biased... |  The Confessions of St. AugustineBest Price: $4.12 For whatever reason, the editor here has seen fit to leave out sections of Augustine's... |  The Nature of AlexanderBest Price: $7.66 Mary Renault is an Alexander apologist. She didn't try to mitigate her fan mentality in this... |
 The History of Alexander (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.65 Another book written on Alexander the Great,but different from the others. So many have written... |  The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version (Paraclete Living Library)Best Price: $5.44 Devotional outpourings of penitence and thanksgiving by one of the greatest thinkers of ancient... |  In the Footsteps of Alexander The Great: A Journey from Greece to AsiaBest Price: $6.37 If you pick this up, don't expect any in-depth or informative analysis of Alexander's life,... |  John Adams Movie Tie-InBest Price: $17.89 Don't get me wrong, this is a terrific book. David McCullough has written another winner. And... |  Levels of the GameBest Price: $8.99 Anyone who has written will appreciate this book, and how McPhee tells two stories-the forestory... |
 Days of GraceBest Price: $3.56 The biography was absolutely rivteting. It showed the enormous depth of a very special man - a... |  John Adams: Young Revolutionary (Childhood of Famous Americans)Best Price: $2.82 Dear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the... |  JOHN ADAMSBest Price: $29.99 This work by DAVID MCCULLOUGH is no less than genius. DAVID MCCULLOUGH won the Pulitzer prize... |  Muhammad Ali: His Life and TimesBest Price: $4.78 I first really watched an Ali fight as a boy. Ali was fighting his second comeback fight... |  A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's PerfumerBest Price: $16.77 Intelligent, clear and elegant, A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's... |
 The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's JourneyBest Price: $4.45 This beautiful summary of Ali's life is not just a gift to his kids but to all of America as... |  Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar GirlBest Price: $13.63 John M. Chernoff's Hustling is Not Stealing is a unique and highly enjoyable insight into a... |  Alexander the GreatBest Price: $8.00 Alexander. After 2,328 years who else can be identified by a single name, without a title, and... |  John Adams: The American Presidents SeriesBest Price: $10.17 While the book does have good info on Adams' personal life & early career as lawyer, it is... |  John Adams: Party of OneBest Price: $5.99 James Grant provides a refreshing new analysis of John Adams that captures his role in the... |
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