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John Adams: A Life
John Ferling.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780195398663.  Daedalus Item Code: 13723
 
The author of A Leap in the Dark and Adams vs. Jefferson as well as the biographer of George Washington, John Ferling here offers a compelling portrait of the man who succeeded George ... (Read More)
 
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Journals 1952–2000
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Publisher: Atlantic Books.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781843549796.  Daedalus Item Code: 30680
 
"Over a career that spanned more than half a century, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner—The Age of Jackson (1945) and the biography A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House ... (Read More)
 
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Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats
Patricia Barey & Therese Burson.
Publisher: Abrams Image.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781419702754.  Daedalus Item Code: 29502
 
While the world remembers Julia Child as the adventurous, charismatic woman who brought French cuisine to America and became an icon of television cooking shows, there's an aspect of her life that's ... (Read More)
 
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Just Kids
Patti Smith.
Publisher: Ecco.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060936228.  Daedalus Item Code: 29183
 
(National Book Award winner) This incandescent memoir by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poet Patti Smith well earned the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction. It is a swift, moving portrait of ... (Read More)
 
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The King's Smuggler: Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I
John Fox.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780752450018.  Daedalus Item Code: 23173
 
Jane Whorwood (1612–84) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes, an extraordinary woman who emerges in this biography as a forgotten key player in the English Civil War. The daughter of Scots ... (Read More)
 
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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
Mark Logue & Peter Conradi.
Publisher: Quercus.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780857381118.  Daedalus Item Code: 22188
 
Lionel Logue was a self-taught and virtually unknown speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost singlehandedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of ... (Read More)
 
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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
Mark Logue & Peter Conradi.
Publisher: Quercus.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780857381118.  Daedalus Item Code: 22520
 
Lionel Logue was a self-taught and virtually unknown speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of ... (Read More)
 
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Colm Toibin.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780330520959.  Daedalus Item Code: 24022
 
The author of Booker Prize–shortlisted fiction like The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, Colm Tóibín is also renowned for such essay collections as Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives ... (Read More)
 
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A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander
Alton Keith Gilbert. John McCain, foreword.
Publisher: Casemate.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781932033502.  Daedalus Item Code: 23807
 
John S. "Slew" McCain was an old-school sailor; wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of Popeye. He was also a pioneer in the hard-hitting naval tactics that ... (Read More)
 
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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Mary Lee Settle. Anne Hobson Freeman, ed.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393057324.  Daedalus Item Code: 01959
 
Two years before her death in 2005, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award founder Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for 50 years." The ... (Read More)
 
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The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh. Mark Amory, ed.
Publisher: Phoenix.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780753827376.  Daedalus Item Code: 31042
 
One of the last of the great letter-writers, Evelyn Waugh sent witty, elegant correspondence to a wide circle of friends—letters that are intimate, revealing, and contain more than a touch of malice, ... (Read More)
 
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A Life Like Other People's
Alan Bennett.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780374191924.  Daedalus Item Code: 21702
 
Tony Award–winning playwright Alan Bennett, author of The Uncommon Reader, here offers a poignant memoir of his parents' marriage, recalling the lost world of his childhood and the lives, ... (Read More)
 
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