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| George F. Kennan: An American Life
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John Lewis Gaddis.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594203121. Daedalus Item Code: 30303 |
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| (Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award) In the late 1940s George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set out the ... (Read More)
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| George IV: The Rebel Who Would be King
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Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by Amanda Foreman.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781403983794. Daedalus Item Code: 31989 |
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| The author of The Borgias and Their Enemies and The House of Medici, as well as biographies of Queen Victoria and King George III, Christopher Hibbert here delivers a superbly detailed ... (Read More)
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| George Kennan: A Writing Life
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Lee Congdon.
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| Publisher: ISI Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781933859712. Daedalus Item Code: 31151 |
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| There were two George Kennans, posits history professor Lee Congdon: the first was a diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia—a tough political realist who gained fame as the ... (Read More)
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| George Washington's First War: His Early Military Adventures
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David A. Clary.
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| Publisher: S&S. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439181102. Daedalus Item Code: 20920 |
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| "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." So wrote the young George Washington to his brother, something that David Clary notes no veteran soldier ... (Read More)
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| George Washington's War: In Caricature and Print
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Kenneth Baker.
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| Publisher: Grub Street. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781906502539. Daedalus Item Code: 23820 |
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| The American Revolution was the five-year war that made America a nation—President Barack Obama referred to it in his Inaugural Address and American schoolchildren are steeped in its history—yet the ... (Read More)
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| Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
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Renee Winegarten.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300119251. Daedalus Item Code: 12775 |
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| When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their 20s, both married, and both outsiders. Their passionate and productive ... (Read More)
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| Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground
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Glenn W. LaFantasie.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780253350718. Daedalus Item Code: 31946 |
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| "Gettysburg is more than a pivotal battlefield for Americans. It has also, in its way, become something of a national Pantheon. For American heroes have trod that ground, both those who fought there, ... (Read More)
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| Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
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John Stauffer.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780446580090. Daedalus Item Code: 30050 |
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| The author of The Black Hearts of Men, a co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and runner-up for the Lincoln prize, Harvard literature professor John Stauffer offers this ... (Read More)
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| Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque
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Kate Cambor.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780374532246. Daedalus Item Code: 21693 |
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| They were the celebrity heirs and heiresses of Belle Époque France, the children and grandchildren of such famous 19th-century men of letters and science as writer Alphonse Daudet, neurologist ... (Read More)
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| God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
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Cullen Murphy.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618091560. Daedalus Item Code: 29134 |
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| Instituted by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826; the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this ... (Read More)
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