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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power... more

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  The 48 Laws of Power

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  • Posted:Sep-20-2009

  • Snippets In Search of Context
  • This book is a useful summary of some aspects of the various philosophers thought. Yet it is often lacking in historical context.
    
    A much more practical book for our times-- in which...
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  • An amazing read
  • Ok, let's say you want to read simply because you are bored. This book is filled full of factual stories about every law to show you how the law has been used throughout history. Extremely...
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  • How to Build Your Mansion in Hell...
  • Written by a weasel for other weasels or wanna-be weasels. No scruples whatsoever. No morality. No kindness. Nothing ever for anyone but yourself. Socially destructive. Yet consistent and...
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On the sweltering summer night of July 16, 1918, in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg, a group of assassins led an... more

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  The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg

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  • A gritty, day-by-day narrative of 14 days leading to a massacre
  • Anyone picking up this book is likely to have read some of the other literature on the Romanovs or the Russian Revolution, notably the Robert Massie biography, Nicholas and Alexandra and the follow...
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Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack... more

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  Renegade: The Making of a President

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  • Posted:Jul-22-2009

  • A fun insider's account of an amazing election
  • I really had fun reliving the election, learning more about what went on in the campaign, and sharing some of the most interesting or funny anecdotes with my family. I think Wolffe did a great job...
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  • Posted:Jul-19-2009

  • Interesting but not too pleasant to read
  • I just wanted to second what a few other reviews mention. The book is interesting, and contains a few anecdotes I had not heard, but is pretty poorly edited - or written. The story does tend to...
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  • Posted:Jul-19-2009

  • Weak and disappointing effort.
  • I really looked forward to this book, hoping for a behind-the-scenes expose of a fascinating race. Instead, I got a book loaded with campaign talking points and very little to add to the discourse...
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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death... more

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  Man's Search for Meaning

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  • Posted:Oct-10-2009

  • Where Have You Been All My Life?
  • I had received "Man's Search For Meaning" a couple of years ago as a gift. Since that time it had languished on my bookshelf, overcome by other priorities. After all, it was written in 1959, so it...
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  • not recommended
  • I read this book thinking there would be great insights into the meaning of life, per the title and some positive reviews I've heard. There were maybe 5 pages of this broken up into half-page...
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  • The Meaning of Logotherapy
  • This book was really two books in one. The first part centered on the author's experiences and feelings of suffering as a Holocaust survivor. The terrible pain and indignity came out crystal...
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This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant... more

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  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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  • Incredibly detailed and incredibly real
  • Team of Rivals is a fantastic book. Although by training I am an ancient historian, I have recently taken an interest in the American Civil War era and its effects on the postwar society of the...
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  • Posted:Jul-23-2009

  • well written but presents no new insight
  • I read this book after reading [[ASIN:1400064996 A. Lincoln: A Biography]. I found that though this book is well written it presents no new information. All the inner dealings with the cabinet...
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  • Posted:Dec-30-2008

  • team of rivals is flawed
  • The book looks at three rivals who sort of worked together in the end. The book fails to address Lincolns disasterous decisions with the rest of his cabinet and the generals he selected. The cost...
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  Man's Search for Meaning

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  • Posted:Sep-08-2009

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  • A great book!
    If you are considering purchasing this book, please do so. You will not be disappointed.
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  • Man's Search for Promoting His Psychological Theory
  • I'm actually a little surprised this book has such a high rating. I enjoyed it, and it was a very powerful book but I would have liked to know that this book focused so much on the theory and...
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Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the... more

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  Team of Rivals

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  • Posted:Sep-20-2009

  • Talk about reliving history
  • This is an absolutely spectacular book. When I started, it was so long that I figured I'd read a chapter or two, then switch to a novel, then go back to it. Wrong! Once I started, I was hooked,...
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  • Posted:Jul-23-2009

  • well written but presents no new insight
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  • Posted:Jun-12-2008

  • Not My Kind of History
  • A Team of Rivals, by Goodwin, is a review of Lincoln and his cabinet during the Civil War. The problem with the book is it could have been written in one third of the space. Very little of the...
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In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award?winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of... more

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  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

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  • Posted:Sep-23-2009

  • Good, but not as good as the other books that Ellis has written!
  • Unlike the single-subject character studies that Ellis has written, this book is a collection of six stories about the revolutionary generation. It starts out with the story of the duel between...
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  • Pontificating Professor
  • I had just finished Walter Isaacson's biography of Ben Franklin, a book I greatly admired for its ability to illuminate Franklin and his times. I thought Ellis' book would be a good followup. But...
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  • Ellis measures the quality of his work by the number of words
  • The relevance of the book to today's political environment is overwhelming. There are pages of text I've underlined with the plan to post those quotes on certain political blogs dealing with...
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood:... more

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  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

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  • Posted:Sep-18-2009

  • Angela's Ashes
  • Angela's Ashes gave great insight into the circumstances of the unfortunate poor class in Ireland. A realization of what our parents and grandparents went thru before imigrating to a place that...
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  • VERY GOOD BOOK....VERY MOVING.
  • This audio book was very good....especially entertaining with the author, Frank McCourt, reading it with his Irish accent. Really got you feeling that you were actually in Ireland. I recommend...
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  • Angela's Ashes
  • I read the book. It is moving and sad, but I don't understand how the author won a Pulitzer Prize for it. It was difficult to wade through the first four chapters. It got easier, but only because I...
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They were the greatest generation in American history.Yet how much do you really know about the Founding Fathers? And... more

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  The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers (The Politically Incorrect Guides)

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  • Posted:Jul-17-2009

  • Correcting the Slanders That The Revisionist Historians Committed Against The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
  • This is a truly wonderful book. It answers some of the many questions I had about what my three children were learning about American History during their six years studying in Boston Latin School....
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A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of... more

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  Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

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  • Great book!
  • This book was passed around and enjoyed by many in my family. This is the only book that we've passed around this much. It's a quick read, fascinating, and it will stay with you for years. I...
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  • Not for the non-fish lover
  • I must clarify. I am not a big lover of fish in the first place, so I am biased. But I come away from this book wanting a lot more (more information about the fish wars, about how the moratorium is...
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  • Like a tasteless fishstick
  • Cod could have been a good book but the author, Mark Kurlansky, seems intent on driving home his point that the cod fish has been vital through the course of civilization. Unfortunately, Mr....
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Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest... more

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  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)

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  • One of the Finest Biographies I've Ever Read
  • One of the finest biographies I've ever read. It takes TR from birth to assumption of the Presidency. Morris is incredibly vivid and brings you right into this fascinating story. Comprehensively...
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  • The good, the bad and the Ugly of TR
  • Morris book takes a look at the early life of Theodore Roosevelt including his time with the rough riders. The first 350 pages of this book are boring. They categorize his early years at Harvard...
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  • How to win a Pulitzer Prize
  • Please note that this 2-star rating should be read as "fair," not as below average.
    Here we have a reasonably interesting straight chronologic hagiography that I would recommend for readers...
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The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt,... more

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  Truman

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  • Excellent Book
  • I found this book to be excellent. The author brought to life a president whom I knew little about. It is not by accident that this book won the Pulitzer prize. It is a long book almost 1,000...
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  • Good read, well written, but a bit too pro-Truman
  • I really enjoyed reading the book. The writing style was smooth and the writer made events come alive. Although the book was rather long, it was lively throughout and, I think, captured the...
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  • Unbalanced Biography
  • David McCullough writes well but tends to leave out the negative aspects of his subject's personality traits. Truman was impetuous and suffered from feeling that the Presidency was too big for him....
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Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling... more

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  Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China

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  • Posted:Sep-18-2009

  • NOT a "real life" Amy Tan novel!
  • Many of the negative reviews of this book seem to center on the idea that it should be a "real life" version of an Amy Tan novel. It isn't! So if you prefer your historical nonfiction and memoir to...
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  • Don't Be Fooled
  • I specifically ordered a hardback from this "business" and received a paperback. It even had a magazine article tucked inside it. Well, the main points are that I didn't receive what I ordered,...
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  • I liked the book, but it may not be for you.
  • I have mixed feelings about the book Wild Swans. It certainly was not a page turner, rather it was a book I could lay down at any time, and even walk away from for a couple of days, which I did a...
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To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis,... more

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  His Excellency: George Washington

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  • No cherry trees here
  • This is another really interesting and human portrait of a president by Mr. Ellis. I enjoyed this book just as much as I enjoyed American Sphinx (about Jefferson) and Passionate Sage (about Adams)...
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  • A suspect treatment
  • The modern "pyschological" biography attempts what is probably an impossibility: to penetrate and elucidate the core "personality" or "character" of an historic figure. The danger that the...
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  • There are many review about this book so I will not go into a lot of detail.
    First I will talk about the narration. One reviewer was very critical. He said the pace was very slow. I liked the...
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  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)

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  • Autobiography of Ben Franklin
  • After reading Walter Isaacson's, Ben Franklin, An American Life, the Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Benjamin Franklin was a huge disappointment. Written in the original, King's English, it is not...
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  • Should be required reading......
  • if this were not a land of liberty. I think every senior in high school should read this book though.
    
    I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, (Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin....
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  • Non-Fiction
  • This says Norton Critical Edition, so, of course, designed for academic study.
    
    A man that of course did a whole pile of stuff and came up with a whole pile more.
    
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four... more

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  Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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  • Engrossing book of a remarkable life and empire
  • Based on the accounts of a few ancient historians and a key text discovered in China in the 19th century, Jack Weatherford provides a picture of one of the most influential figures in the history...
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  • Lies start in the introduction of the book
  • I could not get past the introduction of this book. I could get past some lies, like the fact that the Qin dynasty united China as a nation centuries before Genghis Khan, but when the author lied...
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  • Good, but selective use of facts.
  • The Mongol conquests had an impact much greater than commonly believed, but Weatherford overreaches on some claims (as he does in his Native American books where they, rather than the Mongols, seem...
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  They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

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  • Your Life Will Change Forever When You Read this Book
  • I read the book 2 years ago and it's as inspirational as any book can be. Things that I thought mattered are silly to me now. I almost didn't read it because anything about children suffering I...
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  • Not my cup of tea
  • I was prompted to purchase this book because I saw the three young men on TV, and was impressed with them. I had just finished reading the Kite Runner which I loved, and this reminded me a little...
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  Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Third Edition

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  • As expected of a saint it is a spiritual masterpiece
  • I have read a Story of a soul and can give these impressions for you. You will not hear a story of someone who lived a life devoid of suffering, nor of one who accomplished many great things....
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  • An obsolete translation, from an inauthentic manuscript, of a great book
  • Rev. Thomas Taylor's early 20th century translation of the memoir of St. Therese of Lisieux was made from the only manuscript then available outside her monastery, one substantially rewritten by...
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  • More like a diary.
  • I was hoping for more detail of St. Therese's life. It reads like personal letters and the reader doesn't know all the references. Good read for developing virtue.
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  Tesla: Man Out of Time

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  • A fascinating book about the greatest genius you've never heard of.
  • I'd seen bits and pieces about the inventor Nikola Tesla on TV before and been a fan of the 80's rock band Tesla. I then watched a TV special about him a few months ago and wanted to know more. I...
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  • Tesla-An often overlooked genius
  • This book gives an insight into the scope of Tesla's work, his involvements with the other inventors and businessmen of his day and most interesting--his eccentricities.
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  • I agree with Carlberg
  • My title says it all. I just wanted to make sure that there was more balance to this book review.
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