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181) Booth: a novel
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English
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"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"--
In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth -- breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor,...
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Harvest book volume HB297
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xiv, 762 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Brings to life the young country lawyer as well as the president who became the central figure in the wildest storm that ever shook the American Republic.
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xvi, 510 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Español
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"En esta culminación de cinco décadas de estudios sobre la historia presidencial, la autora Doris Kearns Goodwin, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, ofrece una exploración esclarecedora del desarrollo temprano, el crecimiento y el ejercicio del liderazgo. ¿Los líderes nacen o se hacen? ¿De dónde viene la ambición? ¿Cómo afecta la adversidad al crecimiento del liderazgo? ¿El líder hace a los tiempos o los tiempos hacen al líder? En Liderazgo:...
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xv, 247 pages : 22 cm
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English
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"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize. Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
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xvii, 396 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
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English
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Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand: David McCullough on John Adams, Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson, Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton,...
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xvi, 486 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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Describes the Civil War from Abraham Lincoln's point of view in Washington, D.C., chronicling how the president supported fugitive slaves and also personally comforted wounded troops during wartime.
187) The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the struggle for American freedom
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445 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence -- violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...
188) The conspirator
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2 videodiscs (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war hero,...
189) The politics book
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352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.
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