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Lest We Forget: The John Ford Stock Company
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Lincoln: A Newbery Award Winner
Testament of Youth: One Woman's Haunting Record of the First World War
James Joyce
Re Joyce
Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home
Penguin Millionaire: The Story of Birdland
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
Captain Scott
Shackleton: A Biography
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition 1907-1909
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
Will in the World
Sir Francis Drake
The Last Voyage of Columbus
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Galileo's Daughter
The Man Who Made Lists
Benjamin Franklin
James Monroe: A Life
Rochambeau
Whispers Across the Atlantick: General William Howe and the American Revolution
Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor
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Commander

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Pappy: The Life Of John Ford
Boris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, Television and Recording Work
Hitch 22: A Memoir
The Missionary Position
Why Orwell Matters
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography
Mortality
Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross
Ross in the Antarctic: The voyages of James Clark Ross in Her Majesty's ships Erebus & Terror, 1839-1843
The Impossible First
The stowaway
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic
Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
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Ezra Pound

The Silence in the Garden
Ezra Pound, Poet. Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972
First Family
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Saint-Exupery : A Biography
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
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Life of Andrew Jackson, The

John C. Calhoun: A Biography
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Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce: Martyr for the Union
And There Was Light
With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
Henry Clay
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
Thomas Jefferson the art of power
The Last King of America
Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer
John Barry
Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World
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A Thousand Days

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
JFK's last hundred days
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America
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Benjamin Rush

John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography
Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination
As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling
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Last Stop, The Twilight Zone

Stalin
John C. Calhoun, American Portrait.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
The Life of George Washington
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Zachary Taylor

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Johnson
Jefferson the Virginian
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson and the rights of man
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Jefferson the President

The sage of Monticello
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Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty

John Tyler: Champion of the Old South
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
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Robert Kennedy and His Times

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The life of Andrew Jackson

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