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 Under a Wing: A MemoirBest Price: $5.33 Reeve Lindbergh gives a most interesting overview of her very famous parents - her father with... |  Will Rogers: A BiographyBest Price: $14.95 Will Rogers seemed like a really interesting person, but like many people today I knew almost... |  The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America (includes 16 pages of B&W photographs)Best Price: $2.77 Echoing some of the other reviews - it's 'thin', disorganized and has a large Bill:Annie ratio.... |  Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His FamiliesBest Price: $15.99 Robert Smalls (1839 - 1915) is a little known figure outside of South Carolina but he deserves... |  Blues All around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. KingBest Price: $8.07 The blues are not just a style of music. The appeal of the blues is it's unapologetic approach... |
 William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911-1951Best Price: $7.02 He was bigger than life and one innovative person ...maybe the first gorilla marketer whether... |  Andrew Jackson (Great Generals)Best Price: $8.97 I have read several of this author's works, and have never been disappointed. It is easy to see... |  The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of AmericaBest Price: $5.40 This title is essentially a dual biography of the political lives of Douglas and Lincoln.... |  Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many LegendsBest Price: $6.05 The review appearing here by Ardell Young, which I expected to be well-researched in view of... |  Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and AdmireBest Price: $2.59 R. Cort Kirkwood's Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire, is a fine introduction... |
 Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena HickokBest Price: $8.59 A woman I knew so little about comes to life in this book. I generally don't like biographies... |  Hazardous DutyBest Price: $19.47 A great story about a model Major General in todays world. If you want a great war story about... |  Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American PatriotBest Price: $1.66 I found this fantastic book on the clearance stack at Border's. I became aware of Webster's... |  Rosa Parks: A LifeBest Price: $5.88 An inspirational story about the life of Rosa Parks, a mulatto woman who refused to give up her... |  Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century CharlestonBest Price: $27.98 Mary's World helped me to understand life in the Antebellum South and the culture that thrived... |
 Eudora Welty : Stories, Essays & Memoir (Library of America, 102)Best Price: $18.61 Each new volume from The Library of America, the non-profit publisher that has become the de... |  John Tyler, the Accidental PresidentBest Price: $20.49 I think if one approaches this biography with lowered expectations, one is more forgiving of... |  The Dry DivideBest Price: $6.84 When Ralph Moody, 20 years old, is put off the train at McCook, Nebraska, on July 4, 1919, he... |  Clara Barton: Professional AngelBest Price: $21.99 Elizabeth Brown Pryor eloquently told the story of Clara Barton digging deep into who exactly... |  James K. Polk: 1845 - 1849: The American Presidents SeriesBest Price: $12.50 James Polk was more successful than anyone would expect, given that so little is known about... |
 Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White HouseBest Price: $4.27 Grace & Power has to be one of my favorite non fiction pieces. I originally borrowed it from... |  Reflected GloryBest Price: $3.83 every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year of her... |  Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated CartoonistBest Price: $14.71 tremendous text for classic bugs bunny enthusiasts. brings a new found appreciation for the... |  My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H. W. BushBest Price: $5.90 With the 2008 presidential elections coming up, I took it upon myself to learn about our future... |  Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the PilgrimsBest Price: $4.78 I picked this book up several years after taking particular note of Richard More's headstone in... |
 Nathan Bedford Forrest: A BiographyBest Price: $8.70 Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most interesting figures from the mid-19th Century. He was... |  Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs of an African-American SeamstressBest Price: $4.73 Keckley was a former slave who became a successful Washington, D.C., dressmaker - and a... |  Grand Central WinterBest Price: $4.00 Several reviewers criticize Stringer's Grand Central Winter for what they see as its lack of... |  Samuel Adams: A LifeBest Price: $18.48 In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has... |  A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American RepublicBest Price: $10.15 A must read for anyone interested in Henry and the time period. It does go easy on Henry with... |
 With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and PoliticsBest Price: $17.50 I loved this book! It helped me finally find a piece of history that was missing for me. I was... |  The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black DynastyBest Price: $3.85 I enjoyed this book from cover to cover. Not only was in a nice superficial overview of the... |  Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian PolicyBest Price: $27.96 Robert Owens gives a fair and comprehensive biography of Harrison's career and value system. ... |  The Orchard: A MemoirBest Price: $4.95 This compelling memoir of Adele Crockett Robertson, known as Kitty, chronicles just a few years... |  Joe Gould's SecretBest Price: $4.98 Having seen the movie before reading the book, I wasn't sure what to expect. I'm happy to report... |
 The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored ManBest Price: $4.31 This is a work of fiction, not Johnson's autobiography. Johnson was a major figure in... |  John Adams Movie Tie-InBest Price: $12.85 Don't get me wrong, this is a terrific book. David McCullough has written another winner. And... |  Soul of the Lion: A Biography of General Joshua L. ChamberlainBest Price: $8.00 This is the story of one of the most remarkable combat officers produced during the Civil War.... |  James A. Garfield (The American Presidents)Best Price: $7.39 James A. Garfield is one of those forgotten 18th century U.S. presidents--along with Fillmore,... |  The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten PresidentBest Price: $5.79 As noted by others, this is not a work of biography. Despite what others have said, I don't... |
 Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for DemocracyBest Price: $14.61 This is a book about a woman who made a difference. It is also the story of a woman's triumph... |  Commodore: The Life of Cornelius VanderbiltBest Price: $3.68 When I bought this book, I thought it was going to have more about his involvement in... |  Thomas Jefferson: (The American Presidents Series)Best Price: $6.00 In his biography of Thomas Jefferson, titled "American Sphinx," Joseph Ellis tellingly... |  The Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyBest Price: $29.69 My parents took me to Monticello as a young girl, and I have been fascinated with Thomas... |  A House in BaliBest Price: $11.42 Even as the art & tradition of classical gamelan music fades in Java, gamelans are built... |
 BootprintsBest Price: $27.39 At least that's what my father (Co. K, 359th Infantry, 90th ID) called it. He even went over on... |  Pershing (Great Generals)Best Price: $10.97 The author, Jim Lacey, does an outstanding job of capturing the history of one of the first... |  Sleeping ArrangementsBest Price: $2.42 I found myself struggling to finish this book. I almost gave up several times. The first several... |  Bat Masterson: The Man and the LegendBest Price: $15.48 I not being one to read novels much at all, found this book very easy to read! I liked the fact... |  Hemingway: The Paris YearsBest Price: $11.00 Isn't it strange that having lived up with Hem's books and later with all the student's stuff on... |
 Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart GardnerBest Price: $79.95 I bought this biography at the ISGM in the modern Centennial edition (2003) (1903 creation of... |  Helen Keller: A LifeBest Price: $14.02 My grandfather saw Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan on one of their vaudeville tours in the early... |  Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and LegacyBest Price: $4.98 This book was purchased because my 13-year old chose it for a book report. She learned about... |  Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. DickBest Price: $1.40 Divine Invasions presents a detailed account of the life of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, but... |  Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock CriticBest Price: $10.04 lester bangs is a legend in the music industry. this is a great read for anyone who is a fan of... |
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