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William Faulkner - The Reivers: A Reminiscence

William Faulkner - The Reivers: A Reminiscence

Faulkner's last novel, THE REIVERS, won the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially comic novel, it tells the story of 11-year-old Lucius "Loosh" Priest; Boon ...
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Latest review by pyfr Feb 10, 2007
"In this, William Faulkner&#146s final novel (and second to win the Pulitzer Prize), we see that the..." Read full review

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Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro&#8217;s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. <b>Master of the ...
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Latest review by BBailey182 Aug 28, 2003
"The phrase "Keep your eye on the ball" came to mind a lot while reading Robert Caro's massive third..." Read full review

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Charles Simic - The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

Charles Simic - The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

The short sentences in these quirky prose poems build to describe the absurdisms of a world wracked by war and tragedy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize ...
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Latest review by annemorganmu Feb 26, 2001
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them...." Read full review

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David J. Garrow - Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David J. Garrow - Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

An intimate portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., encompasses every aspect of his life, from his humble beginnings as a pastor to become the leading ...
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Latest review by jsindygirl May 5, 2007
"Among the early books written about the civil rights movement and the many new works written about t..." Read full review

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Richard Ellmann - Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann - Oscar Wilde

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde--psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously ...
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Latest review by keithpruitt May 1, 2004
"Originally posted March 9, 2001 A little more than 100 years have passed since the death of Oscar Wi..." Read full review

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Stephen Dunn - Different Hours: Poems

Stephen Dunn - Different Hours: Poems

The poet's eleventh volume of poetry plumbs the mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the endurance of the mind and body in the face of diminishment.
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Latest review by javajnkie Feb 7, 2003
"This was the first work by Dunn I'd ever read. I took my daughter to a lecture at the local universi..." Read full review
Robert Massie - Peter the Great: His Life and World

Robert Massie - Peter the Great: His Life and World

"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"<br>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<br>Against the monumental canvas of ...
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Latest review by mkp51 Jan 25, 2001
"Over the past century in Russia, a succession of historical Titans have strode across the worlds st..." Read full review

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John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever

This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of Cheever's short fiction features "The Swimmer," "The Enormous Radio," "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill," and ...
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Latest review by jmk444 Nov 16, 1999
"Cheever remains one of Americas finest short story writers and this collection shows why. The geniu..." Read full review

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Jimmy Carter - An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

Jimmy Carter - An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

The former president offers an intriguing account of growing up on a Georgia farm during the Depression and provides incisive profiles of the people ...
Arthur Herman - Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Arthur Herman - Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

The epic struggle between Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill jumps to life from the pages of Arthur Herman's double biography. Detailing the lives ...

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Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) ...

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Bernard Malamud - The Fixer

Bernard Malamud - The Fixer

Malamud's novel is based on the case of a Jewish worker in Russia who is accused of murder, and his subsequent treatment at the hands of the law and ...

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Thomas P. Hughes - American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970

Thomas P. Hughes - American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970

ISBN13: 9780226359274. ISBN10: 0226359271. by Thomas P. Hughes. Published by University of Chicago Press.

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Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert Caro's study reveals Robert Moses as a head of a state agency who seemed to wield more power than most elected officials, and who forever ...

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Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

<p align="left">This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (<i>New Republic</i>) made history when it ...

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