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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women

By: Alfred Allan Lewis

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Viking Adult: January 2000

Seller ID: 167690

ISBN: 0670858102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women is a group biography of four talented-and wealthy-New York women at the turn of the twentieth century whose lives became intertwined as they pioneered new roles for women. With dash, wit, intelligence, and industry, Elisabeth Marbury, her partner Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Morgan (daughter of J. P. Morgan), and Anne Vanderbilt had the courage to use their privileged status to transform their world. From attending lively society balls and Europe's royal courts to marching in labor-organizing protests and nurturing great talents such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, ...
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Voltaire,

By: Alfred Noyes

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sheed & Ward: January 1936

Seller ID: 89697

ISBN: B000856YN4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sturdy, clean ex-library copy with minimal marks thereof. Contents clean and unmarked, some scuffing/soiling to covers.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

By: Alison Weir

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: January 2000

Seller ID: 167144

ISBN: 0345405404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

By: Alison Weir

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: January 2000

Seller ID: 170602

ISBN: 0345405404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

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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A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.

By: Alvin S. Felzenberg

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: February 2018

Seller ID: 147191

ISBN: 0300234449

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics

William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of Buckley's career, including his role as back-channel adviser to policy makers, his intimate friendship with both Ronald and Nancy Reagan, his changing views on civil rights, and his break with George W. Bush over the Iraq War.

Felzenberg demonstrates how Buckley conveyed ...
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library Paperbacks)

By: Amanda Foreman

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Modern Library: January 2001

Seller ID: 165764

ISBN: 0375753834

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its undisputed leader.

Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774, at the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats, the Duke of Devonshire. Launched into a world ...
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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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