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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Library of Religious Biography)

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: April 2003

Seller ID: 109336

ISBN: 0802842933

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

An enlightening -intellectual biography- of Lincoln, Allen Guelzo's peerless account of America's most celebrated president explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him as a serious thinker deeply involved in the nineteenth-century debates over politics, religion, and culture. Written with passion and dramatic impact, Guelzo's masterful study offers a revealing new perspective on a man whose life was in many ways a paradox.
Since its original publication in 1999, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President has garnered numerous accolades, not least the prestigious 2000 Lincol...
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Eighty Years at Hull-House

By: ALLEN F. DAVIS

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Quadrangle Books: April 1969

Seller ID: 20080405137947

ISBN: 991146995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

good/good. Exlib. Text is free of marks, tight binding. DJ is covered by mylar so consequently in very good shape. Quarto size.
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American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (Galaxy Books)

By: ALLEN F. DAVIS

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: February 1975

Seller ID: 20090423155583

ISBN: 0195018974

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Clean, unmarked text. Normal shelf wear. Yellowed pages.
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Tocqueville: A Biography

By: ANDRÃ‰ JARDIN, ROBERT HEMENWAY

Price: $18.00

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: October 1998

Seller ID: 20070913122563

ISBN: 0801860679

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

" "Tocqueville: A Biography" is a book of considerable importance, primarily because of its comprehensive treatment of both Tocqueville's public life and his private life--including many details necessarily absent from the two previous biographical essays."--John Lukacs, "The New Yorker"

In this first major biography of the author of "Democracy in America," Andr Jardin traces Alexis de Tocqueville's eventful life from his birth in 1805 to aristocratic parents in post-revolutionary France, through his trip to antebellum America as a young man, his adventures in Algeria, and his political care...
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Tocqueville: A Biography

By: ANDRÃ‰ JARDIN, ROBERT HEMENWAY

Price: $7.95

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: October 1998

Seller ID: 99859

ISBN: 0801860679

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear, clean, unmarked text. binding sound. Previous owner's name and notes inscribed inside rear cover.
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Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age

By: ANDRE MAUROIS

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Time Inc: April 1980

Seller ID: 20080408138033

ISBN: B000P1UGJY46

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Used - as new.
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Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age (Time Reading Program Special Edition)

By: Andre Maurois

Price: $6.75

Publisher: Time: January 1965

Seller ID: 171456

ISBN: B000CD581Q

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

LIght cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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DISRAELI. A PICTURE of the VICTORIAN AGE

By: Andre' Maurois

Price: $8.75

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company. New York, NY.: January 1928

Seller ID: 94788

ISBN: B0013QOVDM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean, sturdy copy, almost no cover wear, pristine text.
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Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast

By: Andrew E. Kersten

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Hill and Wang: May 2012

Seller ID: 124708

ISBN: 0809034794

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Clarence Darrow is best remembered as the defense attorney in some of the most famous (and infamous) cases in American legal history. With his brilliant closing argument that saved the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb from the gallows and his impassioned defense of John T. Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom, Darrow became a legend even in his own time. But such a towering reputation often obscures the man behind it, and attempts to shoehorn him into a single political party due to his long association with the labor movement have only further muddled his legacy. As the histor...
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John Buchan : The Presbyterian Cavalier

By: ANDREW LOWNIE

Price: $18.95

Publisher: David R Godine Pub: November 2003

Seller ID: 20080414138689

ISBN: 1567922368

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The major biography of one of Scotland's most enigmatic and underrated writers.
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John Buchan : The Presbyterian Cavalier

By: ANDREW LOWNIE

Price: $18.95

Publisher: David R Godine Pub: November 2003

Seller ID: 109300

ISBN: 1567922368

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The major biography of one of Scotland's most enigmatic and underrated writers.
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The Life of an Ordinary Woman

By: Anne Ellis

Price: $7.50

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: August 1980

Seller ID: 152479

ISBN: 0803267045

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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Josiah Wedgwood

By: ANTHONY BURTON

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Stein & Day Pub: November 1976

Seller ID: 20080414138382

ISBN: 0812819071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very good. A clean, solid copy, very nice. Dustjacket fair with large diagonal tear (taped) and creases on back cover.
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Cromwell: The Lord Protector

By: ANTONIA FRASER

Price: $9.75

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: October 1973

Seller ID: 166551

ISBN: 0394470346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Book identical to image shown. Light cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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The Life of Charles Sumner: The Scholar in Politics: American Reformers

By: Archibald H. Grimke

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Co.: December 1891

Seller ID: 139357

ISBN: B004OKY7VK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Burgundy boards show moderate wear, heavier at spine, which is also sunned. Interior front hinge shows some separation, but binding still firm. Found a few instances of pencil underlining in the text.
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past

By: ARIEL SABAR

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Algonquin Books: October 2009

Seller ID: 20091006162784

ISBN: 1565129334

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.

Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people's traditions. Ariel wanted ...
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