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| Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide
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Joseph Epstein.
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| Publisher: Atlas & Co. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780061768880. Daedalus Item Code: 23942 |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic Democracy in America, published in 1835, offered not ... (Read More)
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| Alfred Kazin: A Biography
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Richard M. Cook.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: no jacket.
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| ISBN: 9780300115055. Daedalus Item Code: 31839 |
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| (2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries; 2008 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title; 2008 Washington Post best book in the Biography ... (Read More)
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| Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason
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Christina Shelton.
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| Publisher: Threshold. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451655421. Daedalus Item Code: 30632 |
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| In 1948 former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss, a participant at the Yalta Conference and the formation of the United Nations, was accused of having been a Soviet spy in the 1930s. Because ... (Read More)
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| American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
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David O. Stewart.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439157183. Daedalus Item Code: 22203 |
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| In this vivid biography of an enigmatic founding father, David Stewart depicts Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring, perhaps deluded figure who shook the nascent United States. In 1805 ... (Read More)
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| The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
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Gordon S. Wood.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143035282. Daedalus Item Code: 30298 |
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| (A 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year) We all know Benjamin Franklin, or think we do, as the genial polymath, aphorist, and self-made man—the quintessential American. The ... (Read More)
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| An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
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Colley Cibber.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486414720. Daedalus Item Code: 04314 |
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| As an actor, manager, and playwright, Colley Cibber was an influential member of the London theater in the 18th century. In this book, he not only defends himself against personal attacks from such ... (Read More)
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| Arthur Miller
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Christopher Bigsby.
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| Publisher: Phoenix. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780753826157. Daedalus Item Code: 23095 |
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| Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Arthur Miller's central decade of work—All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge ... (Read More)
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| The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
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Pat F. Garrett.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781616088088. Daedalus Item Code: 20580 |
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| Born in November 1859 as William H. Bonney, Billy the Kid—as he soon became known—started his criminal career at the age of 12 by stabbing a man in a bar fight. He then moved on to stealing horses, ... (Read More)
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| The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life
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Frances Wilson.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374108670. Daedalus Item Code: 20440 |
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| Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas de Quincey as "the very wildest ... person I have ever known," Dorothy Wordsworth is neither a self-effacing spinster nor a sacrificial saint in this ... (Read More)
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| Barbary Pirate: The Life and Crimes of John Ward
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Greg Bak.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752451619. Daedalus Item Code: 23147 |
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| In 1603 John Ward led a mass desertion from the English navy, stole a civilian vessel from Portsmouth, and defected to the Ottoman Empire at Tunis. Allied with the pasha, Ward led Muslim soldiers and ... (Read More)
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| The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition
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Thomas P. Slaughter.
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| Publisher: Hill & Wang. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780809028481. Daedalus Item Code: 30653 |
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| A humble tailor known at first only to the other Quakers who encountered him at meetings in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and New England, John Woolman became a prophetic voice when he spoke out against ... (Read More)
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