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by Robert K. Massie
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsThe extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.
by Michelle Moran
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsThe world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire... but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin.
by Wendy Moore
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsMoore resurrects history from dry names and dates, and vividly recreates this eerily familiar era with a historian's love for detail and a storyteller's passion for a good yarn.
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsThis epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family whose close blood ties to our President Jefferson had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently.
by David O. Stewart
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsThe successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation -- then and now.
by David McCullough
Published Sep 2002
Read ReviewsThe enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
by Joseph J. Ellis
Published Feb 2002
Read ReviewsInforms our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.
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