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Andrew Jackson
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Robert Vincent Remini |
Reveals why Jackson's bold leadership as a general cemented "Old Hickory"'s reputation for being tough and ultimately led to his election as President of the United States in 1828. |
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Libra
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Don DeLillo |
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious sta… |
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Prisoners of the White House
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Kenneth T. Walsh |
One can scarcely imagine an environment outside the nation's penal system that is more isolating than the Executive Mansion, a habitat almost guaranteed to keep America's commander in chief far remov… |
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Le Président de la République a disparu
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Olivier Renaudin |
Le Conseil des ministres tient sa dernière réunion avant les vacances. Le président de la République quitte le palais, de nuit, pour se retirer à "L'Epinette", maison isolée et abandonnée. Il y demeu… |
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Hillary, histoire d'une ambition
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Jeff Gerth |
"Ce livre - nourri de sources inédites et de documents jusqu'ici confidentiels - nous éclaire sur sa véritable histoire." |
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Abraham Lincoln
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Stephen B. Oates |
Stephen B. Oates discerns the historical truth from the mythical legend that surrounds Lincoln in this original and fascinating portrait of America's 16th president. |
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Truman
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David McCullough |
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by Americ… |
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John Adams
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David McCullough |
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared no… |
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El poder y delirio
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Enrique Krauze |
"El poder y el delirio: ¿Quién es Hugo Chávez: un combativo y avanzado líder político, artífice del "socialismo del siglo XXI", o un aprendiz de dictador? ¿Qué es Venezuela: el laboratorio de la prim… |
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Absolute Power
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David Baldacci |
In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman are about to embark on a night of passion, trapping an unsuspecting burglar behind a secret wall. Then the lovemaking turns d… |
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Lincoln
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David Herbert Donald |
The phenomenal national bestseller that is "the Lincoln biography for this generation" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)-now in paperback. Drawing on resources not available until recently, including Lincoln… |
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Dixie & the Dominion
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Adam Mayers |
In 1864 the war had entered its third year, and the battle momentum had shifted towards the North. A Union victory seemed imminent. Desperate to keep the Confederate dream alive, Southern leaders con… |
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