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Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
by Barry Werth
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by David McCullough
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsThe Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
by Peter Carey
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the two-time Booker Prizewinning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.
by Richard Holmes
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
by Martha A. Sandweiss
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsThe secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman he loved
by Howard Blum
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsSimultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a cant-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
by Erik Larson
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsThe interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication.
by Edmund Morris
Published Oct 2002
Read ReviewsFull of cinematic detail, Theodore Rex moves with the exhilarating pace of a novel, yet rides on a granite base of scholarship.
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