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 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... |  A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln (Picture Book Biography)Best Price: $1.98 I enjoyed this book as a tool for children in the primary grades especially. The content and... |  Captain James CookBest Price: $11.31 I knew a few things about the three voyages of Captain Cook so I decided to read his biography.... |  Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? (Who Was...?)Best Price: $2.40 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and... |  Martin Luther: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives)Best Price: $8.24 This title is a little short, but the content seems ok on the controversial figure of Martin Luther. |
 Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out QueenBest Price: $6.78 This is a great picture book for big and little baseball fans and for all our daughters. This... |  Franklin Delano RooseveltBest Price: $3.95 Traces the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early... |  The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.66 I wanted to like this book. I really did. When I saw it online, I thought that it looked... |  Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential LifeBest Price: $10.36 Marking the two hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this marvelous short biography by a... |  The Life of the Buddha : According to the Pali CanonBest Price: $13.51 Buddhists have no equivalent of the Bible. But this book is perhaps is as close as it comes in... |
 When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald ReaganBest Price: $1.75 I thought I knew and understood Reagan. After reading this incredibly moving biography, I know... |  Never Give in: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill (Leaders in Action Series) (Leaders in Action Series)Best Price: $10.62 Mr. Mansfield has done a very nice job. He writes with the presupposition that history is the... |  Mandela: An Illustrated AutobiographyBest Price: $11.84 This book recounts the life of Nelson Mandela beginning in childhood up to the present age. It... |  Henry Ford: Young Man With Ideas (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.)Best Price: $2.26 Book Review Henry Ford--Young Man with Ideas Questions, questions, questions! That's all... |  Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Best Price: $3.47 The first half or so of the book is dedicated to a chronological biography. The second half has... |
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)Best Price: $2.76 Like all of Venezia's books, this is a great introduction to the musician. The story is in... |  The New Quotable EinsteinBest Price: $10.21 One more delightful collection. Einstein and Alan Greenspan (The Age of Turbulence) share some... |  The Rise of Napoleon BonaparteBest Price: $12.84 Perhaps my letdown by this book was inevitable coming as it did immediately after my reading of... |  The Legacy of Andrew Jackson: Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal and Slavery (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)Best Price: $6.00 |  Robert Kennedy : His LifeBest Price: $4.99 The book is okay. It is that simple. The prose are incoherent and it is very hard to tell who... |
 The Life and Death of Adolf HitlerBest Price: $13.45 This book is very informative. It gives the background of one of the world's most infamous men.... |  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... |  Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore RooseveltBest Price: $21.17 Teddy was a small frail asthmatic child whose iron will and loving family helped transform him... |  Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy GrahamBest Price: $3.87 Unless Billy did a fantastic job in hiding all of the difficult and trying times of his life (as... |  Diarios de Motocicleta: Notas de Viaje (Film Tie-in Edition) (Che Guevara Publishing Project / Ocean Sur)Best Price: $7.06 NO HAY NADA MAS LINDO QUE LEER ACERCA DE NUESTROS PAISES, APRENDER DE ELLOS, POR LOS OJOS DE UN... |
 Nixon Off the Record : His Candid Commentary on People and PoliticsBest Price: $6.50 This is a terrific book about the last four years of one of the giants of the last half of the... |  Bush at WarBest Price: $0.95 For those who give any credibility to Bush and his Neo-Conservative Administration, this will be... |  Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism)Best Price: $13.59 One of the greatest works on Nietzsche and about the end of Metaphysics. Heidegger re-discovers... |  Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent MillayBest Price: $3.34 I was engulfed by the book in a profound sense. I like how Milford allows the reader to see... |  Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a NationBest Price: $12.47 A thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history?Nelson... |
 A Picture Book of George Washington (Picture Book Biography)Best Price: $1.45 My children found this book relatively interesting and the pictures were also reasonably... |  Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter PaytonBest Price: $3.99 The title of this book says it all! Walter Payton lived life the best way anyone should, doing... |  Dorothy Day: Selected WritingsBest Price: $11.99 Not a reader of biographies, I was hesitant to purchase the book but have found it to be a... |  White House Chef: Eleven Years, Two Presidents, One KitchenBest Price: $6.19 This exceptionally fine book on what really goes on in the kitchen at the White House is simply... |  Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia PlathBest Price: $4.35 Forty-five years after her death, Sylvia-Plath-mystique is alive and well. This story of Plath's... |
 Robert F. Kennedy: In His Own WordsBest Price: $8.40 I was hesitating between giving this collection 3 or 4 stars. It was great to hear Robert... |  Ty and The Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship And The 1941 Has-Beens Golf ChampionshipBest Price: $11.38 Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Two of the greatest names ever to play Major... |  Michael Jordan: On the Court with (Matt Christopher Sports Biographies)Best Price: $0.88 This book was an awesome book. It has a bunch of information about Michael Jordan throughout... |  Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic RemembranceBest Price: $1.24 I love this book because it shows a lot of photos of Anne Frank and her family, yet plenty of... |  Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents (The James Madison Library in American Politics)Best Price: $11.72 The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his... |
 The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous FamilyBest Price: $16.95 Yes well I thought this was a very interesting book. It explains alot of connections between... |  Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn MonroeBest Price: $25.12 One of the better books on Monroe even after 46 years! THis book still surfaces as the real... |  Ludwig Van Beethoven (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)Best Price: $6.93 Mike Venezia's Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series tends to focus on... |  Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America)Best Price: $20.63 Reading this magnificent volume was a joy on many levels. First and foremost, Theodore... |  Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Critical Issue)Best Price: $8.57 As one of the previous reviewers have already noted, Dr. Hunt spends a lot of time telling us... |
 The Kindness of Strangers (Anthology)Best Price: $6.83 Lonely Planet has done a great job of collecting travel stories of all moods and locations from... |  Robert Kennedy and His TimesBest Price: $10.87 Robert Kennedy played to win. The idea that he was a champion of the little guy is a myth. If... |  MarkingsBest Price: $8.08 What a privilege to share the inner life of Dag Hammarskjold! The writings are personal and... |  Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (Library of American Biography Series) (3rd Edition) (Library of American Biography)Best Price: $12.60 While this biography offered some good insight into the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, much of it... |  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,... |
 Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives)Best Price: $5.65 Edmund Morris' biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, part of the "Eminent Lives" series,... |  George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen by Both SidesBest Price: $8.89 My 8 and 11 year old boys (and I, I must admit), were drawn in by this book and it's interesting... |  The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a BusinessBest Price: $2.97 con este libro, martha te inspira a ser una mujer de negocios y creativa, me gusto mucho |  The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of LifeBest Price: $39.97 At the time when I picked this book up, I thought it was an intriguing subject; to juxtapose... |  Enchantment: The Life of Audrey HepburnBest Price: $8.44 The book arrived when I was convalescing from an illness and thus was was a special treat as it... |
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