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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By: Craig Brown

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: August 2018

Seller ID: 366221

ISBN: 0374906041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix's The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven." --Hamish Bowles, Vogue

"Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant, eccentric treat." --Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal

"I ripped through the book with the avidity of Margaret attacking her morning vodka and orange juice . . . The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly expands his lens from Margaret's misbehavior . . . to those w...
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A Reporter's Life

By: Cronkite, Walter

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: January 1997

Seller ID: 378413

ISBN: 0394578791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year-long journalistic career has spanned the Great Depression, several wars, and the extraordinary changes that have engulfed our nation over the last two-thirds of the 20th century. When Walter Cronkite advised his television audience in 1968 that the war in Vietnam could not be won, President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
Now, at the age of eighty, Cronkite has written his life story--the personal and professional odyssey of the original "anchorman" for whom that very word was coined....
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A Reporter's Life

By: Cronkite, Walter

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: January 1997

Seller ID: 395087

ISBN: 0394578791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year-long journalistic career has spanned the Great Depression, several wars, and the extraordinary changes that have engulfed our nation over the last two-thirds of the 20th century. When Walter Cronkite advised his television audience in 1968 that the war in Vietnam could not be won, President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
Now, at the age of eighty, Cronkite has written his life story--the personal and professional odyssey of the original "anchorman" for whom that very word was coined....
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Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken (Library of Religious Biography)

By: D. G. Hart

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Eerdmans: December 2016

Seller ID: 374069

ISBN: 0802873448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Recounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author--and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day.

In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on Mencken's life. Even as Mencken vividly debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely f...
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Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai

By: Damien, Father

Price: $6.95

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press: April 1984

Seller ID: 387955

ISBN: 0824809203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots

By: Dave Richard Palmer

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Regnery History: August 2006

Seller ID: 273758

ISBN: 1596980206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Fateful turns, choices and escapes from certain death dominate this captivating story of the most compelling figures of the Revolutionary War. When General George Washington appointed Benedict Arnold military commander of the Philadelphia region, military historian Palmer argues, he was not only making one of the worst personnel decisions of his career, but was also creating the conditions for the "Traitor of America" to commit his crime. Stark contrasts and similarities between two men show how their choices informed their destiny. The son of an alcoholic, Arnold became a wealthy merchant bef...
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Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry

By: David Alexander

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Roc: March 1995

Seller ID: 368605

ISBN: 0451454405

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Strength in What Remains

By: Deo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: May 2010

Seller ID: 378051

ISBN: 0812977610

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle -Chicago Tribune - The Christian Science Monitor - Publishers Weekly
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man's inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport ...
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Strength in What Remains

By: Deo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: May 2010

Seller ID: 391494

ISBN: 0812977610

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle -Chicago Tribune - The Christian Science Monitor - Publishers Weekly
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man's inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport ...
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Strength in What Remains

By: Deo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: May 2010

Seller ID: 393894

ISBN: 0812977610

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle -Chicago Tribune - The Christian Science Monitor - Publishers Weekly
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man's inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport ...
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Kovacsland: Biography Of Ernie Kovacs

By: Diana Rico

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1991

Seller ID: 307793

ISBN: 0156472503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ernie Kovacs lived his life at fever pitch - a life that ended in 1962 when his car skidded out of control. Kovacsland is an engrossing and entertaining portrait of a television pioneer. Index; photographs.

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My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir

By: Dick Van Dyke

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: May 2012

Seller ID: 372559

ISBN: 0307592243

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A heartfelt memoir from one of Hollywood's greatest icons
Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and his unforgettable screen roles.
His trailblazing television program, The Dick Van Dyke Show (produced by Carl Reiner, who has written the foreword to this memoir), was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s and introduced another major television star, Mary Tyler Moore. But...
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A Passion for Life: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

By: Donald Spoto

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Collins: April 1995

Seller ID: 349993

ISBN: 0060176571

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From an acclaimed biographer of Lawrence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe comes the definitive biography of Hollywood's most glamorous living legend, the only star from Hollywood's Golden Age who continues to make news wherever she goes and whatever she does. 40 pages of photos, 8 pages in color.
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In My Father's House

By: Dorothy Allred Solomon

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Franklin Watts: October 1984

Seller ID: 344682

ISBN: 0531097633

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Reminiscences

By: Douglas MacArthur

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Naval Inst Pr: March 2001

Seller ID: 382165

ISBN: 1557504830

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Written in his own hand and finished only weeks before his death, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's memoir spans more than half a century of modern history. His vantage point at center stage during major controversies of the twentieth century enabled him to present unique views of the conflicts in which he played a vital role. No soldier in modern time has been more admired--or reviled. Liberator of the Philippines, shogun of Occupied Japan, victor of the Battle of Inchon, the general was a national hero when suddenly relieved of his command by President Truman. His supporters believe his genius for co...
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Benjamin Franklin

By: Edmund S. Morgan

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: July 2003

Seller ID: 297092

ISBN: 0300101627

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"The best short biography of Franklin ever written."--Gordon S. Wood

Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a bestselling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist--and the most prominent celebrity of the eighteenth century.

Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions, as Edmund Morgan demonstrates in this brilliant ...
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Farewell, Jackie : A Portrait of Her Final Days

By: Edward Klein

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Viking Adult: April 2004

Seller ID: 366208

ISBN: B000C4SRCM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West

By: Edward Rice

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: April 1991

Seller ID: 331028

ISBN: 0060973943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden

By: Edward Z. Epstein, Audrey Hepburn

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Running Press: April 2015

Seller ID: 360994

ISBN: 0762455977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Here for the first time is the complete, captivating story of an on-set romance that turned into a lifelong love story between silver screen legends Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. In 1954, Hepburn and Holden were America's sweethearts. Both won Oscars that year and together they filmed Sabrina, a now-iconic film that continues to inspire the worlds of film and fashion.
Audrey & Bill tells the stories of both stars, from before they met to their electrifying first encounter when they began making Sabrina. The love affair that sparked on-set was relatively short-lived,...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Einstein, Albert

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 2008

Seller ID: 381740

ISBN: 0743264746

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching jo...
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Category: Biography