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 Night (Oprah's Book Club)Best Price: $4.19 Some of the scenes went on and on and on, but overall it was very heart touching, eye opening... |  The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomBest Price: $16.69 I have decided to elevate Joseph Needham to the ranks of my primary heroes. That means he joins... |  Man's Search for MeaningBest Price: $2.67 Beautifully written. Easy to comprehend. A very meaningful book. The Doctor presents a good mix... |  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham LincolnBest Price: $13.57 Saying great things about a great man like Lincoln reminds me of my favorite Christmas song:... |  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationBest Price: $7.99 Even though I'd seen and heard multiple items about the founding generation, I was pleasantly... |
 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlBest Price: $2.19 a wonderful story told by an innocent child. it is a must read for all generations |  The Six Wives of Henry VIIIBest Price: $10.32 Alison Weir's well-written, easy to read book about the Six Wives of Henry the VIII is an... |  Wild Swans : Three Daughters of ChinaBest Price: $6.43 I won this great book when I was 18 years old. Until today, after almost two decades, I can... |  Murder of a Medici PrincessBest Price: $14.05 Caroline Murphy's new book is another "must have" for lovers of remarkable... |  Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds HistoryBest Price: $6.99 As a Jew Living in Israel, holocaust related books are important to read, but it's hard to do it... |
 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldBest Price: $8.50 This is a superb history of Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Hords, without the European and Islamic... |  The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former SlavesBest Price: $17.35 I had just finished reading Complicity (The North's involvment in the slave trade) when this... |  The Lincolns: Portrait of a MarriageBest Price: $17.41 There is a review in this week's THE WEEK magazine, calling Epstein's book 'maybe the best... |  John AdamsBest Price: $7.67 Everyone knows Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, but fewer people know Buzz... |  No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIBest Price: $4.95 Seemingly hundreds of books have been written about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Books about... |
 Alexander HamiltonBest Price: $5.70 From what I learned of American history as a schoolboy, Hamilton was certainly considered as one... |  Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeBest Price: $8.00 In "Benjamin Franklin," Walter Isaacson manages to chronicle the life of Franklin in a... |  Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible VoyageBest Price: $4.82 Aptly named, this is a stunning story of courage, strength and perseverance. Good medicine for... |  Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgeBest Price: $15.99 This book is a mediocrity at best. An interesting idea that never comes to fruition. The... |  The Complete Maus: A Survivor's TaleBest Price: $19.12 Although I am not Jewish I feel the same as the Jews that Holocaust books MUST be read. I was... |
 The Life of Elizabeth IBest Price: $8.00 I read this book as part of my interest in the Shakespeare authorship question. It was my first... |  Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With TruthBest Price: $7.08 This is easily the most powerful book I have ever read. Gandhi does a great job of telling the... |  The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)Best Price: $8.84 Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who,... |  My Three Fathers: And the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary AlsopBest Price: $17.16 Speaking as a writer, I give this book half of one star. The dishonesty of the writer was a... |  The Hiding PlaceBest Price: $4.88 This is an absolutely extraordinary book. Never have I read a book in which the spiritual beauty... |
 Angela's Ashes: A MemoirBest Price: $3.70 "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of... |  Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ChildhoodBest Price: $2.61 I certainly enjoyed this book. We will be reading this book as a choice for a book club. There... |  FDRBest Price: $11.63 FDR comes to life, his greatness and his flaws. Mr. Smith has constructed a marvelous one volume... |  Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus)Best Price: $5.99 One (two actually since there are two volumes) of the best submissions about the Holocaust which... |  My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John AdamsBest Price: $19.50 I am very pleased with the quality of this book. I watched the John Adams series on HBO and... |
 His Excellency: George WashingtonBest Price: $7.99 It is sad. The author has made big bucks on a book that essentially is aimed at bringing George... |  The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)Best Price: $6.00 Many academics and scholars border on creative madness, take Kierkegaard and Nietzsche for... |  American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the CenturyBest Price: $16.09 because it sounded interesting but I really knew nothing about Evelyn Nesbit or the murder case... |  Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the WorldBest Price: $3.24 Cod is an engaging history of the fish that changed the world. As an eye opening adventure, cod... |  They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from SudanBest Price: $7.59 My favorite little independent bookshop, Latitude 33, recommended I read this when they found... |
 Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)Best Price: $7.91 Was purchased due to a requirement by my childs school. He has informed me it is a good book. |  Survival In AuschwitzBest Price: $4.50 My review of this classic emphasizes matters not raised by previous reviewers, and is based upon... |  Marie Antoinette: The JourneyBest Price: $7.66 I have read many books on the Dauphine over the years and this is one of the best. It covers... |  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)Best Price: $8.32 I could not put it down. A wonderfully written book about an exciting president, with great... |  American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $6.55 Absolute claptrap from a morally bankrupt excuse of a human being who cannot find his niche in... |
 Man's Search for MeaningBest Price: $3.74 From the perspective of a member in a culture consumed in the "existential vacuum",... |  The Reagan DiariesBest Price: $7.45 What a fantastic book; written by President Reagan at the time history was being made. They say... |  The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient WisdomBest Price: $7.35 This book does not necessarily contain any "answers", apart from the author's own... |  Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and AmericaBest Price: $16.60 James K. Polk always shows up on the best Presidents' list along with the obvious Washingtons,... |  The Legend of Colton H. BryantBest Price: $11.50 I read a few chapters and quit. I found it uninteresting. It now sits on my shelf. |
 The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John AdamsBest Price: $18.94 This is a very intersting book. The letters are all preceeded by an introduction that gives the... |  The Hiding PlaceBest Price: $2.97 I will not go into detail on this very public site about what this author, and her book, mean to... |  Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War IIBest Price: $15.55 Crafting narrative non-fiction, especially in an historical context, is extremely challenging.... |  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkBest Price: $12.28 Robert Caro's The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, contains every attribute of a... |  LincolnBest Price: $7.75 This is a biography of Lincoln. The problem in writing a biography of Lincoln, of course, is... |
 Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North AmericaBest Price: $16.09 Miles Harvey once again provides an example of excellent storytelling; not only does he give... |  My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaBest Price: $4.64 I'm really a fan of Tesla and this book was a good view into him as a person. Although the exact... | |||
Historical Books
See also for Historical Books