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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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  • 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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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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  • 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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  • 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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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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Nikola Tesla, credited by many as the inspiration for radios, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron... more

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  Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius (Citadel Press Book)

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  • Great
  • This is the best book for an introduction to this man.If for no other reason than to read of the long list of inventions that "The Wizard" brought to humanity.Over 120 years latter Nikola Tesla is...
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  • Good content, Bad binding
  • My opinion is that this booksheds much light on the oft-passed-over mysteries of the life and times of Tesla. No doubt his genius altered human history. I enjoyed Cheneys book perhaps more, but I...
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  • Wizard: I Still Don't Know Who Tesla Really Was
  • I was hoping this book would have delved into Tesla's inventions more thoroughly. I was very disappointed in this aspect of the book. The author totally glossed over the Niagara Falls project,...
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The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues.... more

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  Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage)

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  • Fascinating Biography
  • If you only read a single book in your life, this one should be it. If you only read two books in your life, this one should be both of them.
    
    I used to wish that I could stay alive...
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  • three instead of one!
  • Because Amazon were consistently telling me, by mistake, that my credit card details were invalid I re-ordered the book twice more; it then turned out that there was no problem with my credit card...
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  • Caro Needs An Editor!-2
  • "Master of the Senate" is Robert Caro's third volume on the life of former President Lyndon Johnson. It encompasses Johnson's years in the Senate, from 1949 to early 1960. During most of those...
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The monumental work that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence of Arabia." Not only a consummate... more

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  Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

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  • On the Seven Pillars
  • The Seven Pillars is an excellent source for those grappling to understand middle eastern mindsets and customs (especially chapter 2). It also provides some excellent tidbits for thoe wishing to...
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  • Watch the movie
  • T.E. Lawerence was certainly an extraordinary figure in history based on his achievements with the Arabs during WWI but not all heroes are great writers and Lawrence is NOT a good writer. Do...
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  • Seven Pillars
  • The book in its depth, scope and subject matter reminds me of A Bright and Shining Lie. As with that book, it suffers from an overload of details that are distracting to someone unfamiliar with the...
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" Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first... more

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  Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History

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  • BUTLER ROCKS
  • It appears to be a well-researched and through investigation, a full biography on the man who is a fierce warrior, as well as an outspoken war critic, and a history denied from the world. Every...
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  • Academic study
  • Author takes a fascinating story and dries it out into a less-than-stimulating biography. General Butler deserves better than this
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  • A terse biography of a great American
  • Smedley Butler was a great American, a two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, a General in the Marine Corps, and, in retirement, an articulate and famous pacifist, who could not be...
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An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr,... more

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  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

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  • 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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Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence... more

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  Thomas Jefferson

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  • An Objective and Concise Biography of an Enigmatic Man
  • R.B Bernstein's biography, Thomas Jefferson, is a wonderful introduction to the world of Jefferson scholarship and to Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. In particular I...
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  • If you have to read a Bio of Jefferson for school, this is the one
  • This book is informative. That is all it is. My negative feelings for this book are mostly based on the fact that I had just read John Adams by David McCullough, and by comparison nothing will be...
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  • I've read better
  • This book is hard to follow, and written as a suspense book. I really thought this was going to be more of a history type book. I got it to read after I read Jefferson by David McCullough. David is...
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Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and... more

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  Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

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  • A Great Buy
  • Received "Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream" from [...] in a surprisingly quick turnaround from order to delivery. The book was well packaged for shipment, arrived in great condition, and was as...
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  • An OK biography of your typical arrogant, ambitious pol.
  • This book only gave me a lesser view of LBJ because of the worldly tactics that left him a pretty shallow and defeated man at the end of his life. Doris Kearns Goodwin did a good job of showing us...
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  • Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
  • I can't rate this because it has been one month since ordering it and I have not received it. I have contacted ,by e-mail The Book Club , the seller three times and they have not responded. My...
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Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest... more

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  Churchill: A Life

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  • A Biography To Match the Life!
  • Where does one begin to review a book which so marvelously relates such a momentous life? We are allowed 1,000 words in a review, so I can do 11 words for each year of Churchill's life or 1 word...
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  • I guess the price Gilbert paid for 'total' access was 'total' Churchillian myth building. Glosses over ANYTHING negative--refusing to even acknowledge the subject's alcoholism. A giant of a man,...
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  • Very good overview of Churchill's life
  • This book gives a detailed account of Churchill's life, from boyhood, through his military career, and above all, his political exploits, culminating with his leadership of Britain during WW II....
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  Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai

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  • Interesting
  • I had to order this book to read for class (Samurai in Japan). It was better than I expected. Very quick read. The book was written in and kind of banged up, but I really have no problem with that....
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  • Review of Musui's Story
  • I recently had the opportunity to read the autobiography of Katsu Kokichi. Musui's Story, translated by Teruko Craig, is the story of an unethical Japanese samurai in the late Tokugawa era. Musui...
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  Nicholas and Alexandra

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  • Slightly outdated (in places), but still brilliantly written (details)
  • Here we have an aggregation of factual stories which effectively summarizes multiple historical events, chiefly of late-period Tsarist Russia, delivered by Robert K. Massie in the artful style of a...
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  • Tragedy nonpareil; sad and poignant
  • Massie's biography of Tsar Nicholas ,wife Alexandra was an engrossing read.
    
    
    Opulence.pomp,paegentry of Romanovs andRussian aristocracy undoubtedly stunning,spectacular.
    
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  • The book does not do justice to the complexity of this story
  • Massie represents the one of the worst tendencies in popular historical writing, namely the sacrifice of historical complexity in order to tell a pleasing story. Massie completely romanticizes...
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  Washington: The Indispensable Man

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  • Washington
  • I purchased this book for a friend and had it sent to her grandson. He received the book promptly. I have not heard any complaints from them. I would order from this bookseller again.I may read the...
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  • Good introduction
  • I don't know much about George Washington but after reading this book I would like to read something a little more in depth. In particular I was fascinated by the brief glimpses the book gave into...
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  • Two Stars is Kind
  • This just isn't sufficiently accurate nor well-written given its hype and other ratings here. One example is at page 13, where Flexner describes young Washington's trip to a French fort at the...
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Here in their own words, are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger,... more

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  Voices of A People's History of the United States

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  • Voice of A People's History of the United States
  • It's a good book, with a lot of collections of articles from history. But it'll be nicer if it has more of the author's own opinion
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant,... more

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  John Adams

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  • More homosexual popaganda posing as "history"
  • You can definitely tell a book by its cover when you look at the way there portraying one of our founding fathers. C'mon, look at that cover! He looks more like a founding fruitcake with his...
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  • John Adams by David McCullough
  • Having this great desire in my latter years to learn more and refresh my mind concerning the gentlemen, statesmen, scholars and learned' who were also traitors - to the Crown - but founders of this...
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  • Is it a biography on John Adams, or a hagiography?
  • First, the good news. David McCullough writes well, albeit long-windedly (more on this below). You'll learn more about the personal life of John Adams (and Abigail, for that matter) than you ever...
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  The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and...

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  • Did everyone get this book with a sleeve?
  • I did not receive a sleeve with this book as described in the picture and I am embarrassed to give this as a gift to someone for Christmas. Amazon offered to give me a replacement in 3-5 weeks but...
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  • I like the book!
  • It is a very good book, the reading is really good!!! I loved reading the letters between Jefferson and Adams!!!! The letters are very good!!!!
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  Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Revised Edition with a New Epilogue

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  • Augustine the Most Human of Humanists
  • It is extremely easy to view a Saint in one-dimensional terms of goodness. Peter Brown has penned a multi-faceted portrayal of the human being behind the saintliness. In a biography in which...
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In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet... more

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  Mein Kampf

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  • Not totally accurate but a decent translation
  • Many say this translation, The Manheim, though filled with anti-Hitler footnotes, remains truest to the original.
    
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  • poor edition: lazy, sloppy translation
  • I'm reviewing this particular edition of Mein Kampf, not the book itself or Hitler's arguments. If you just want to understand what Hitler's philosophy was, this is fine and inexpensive.
    
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  • I agree with the previous reviewer.
  • I have to agree with the previous reviewer and say the Manheim translation is quite dated now. It has many errors and poor translated parts, some of them are hard to understand. I recently listened...
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  Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

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  • The best biography that I have read up to now
  • This is a brilliant autobiography from one of the most talented business figures in last century. This book is unique for two reasons: (1) seldom had an author who had had experienced so much and...
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  • A somewhat interesting and fairly candid account of IBM
  • Although not exactly riveting, this book does provide an interesting and readable history of IBM from the view of Thomas Watson Jr. who took over control of IBM after his father, Thomas Watson Sr.....
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