Justice Lewis F. Powell:: A Biography
By: John C. Jeffries Jr.
4.16
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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3. Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
By: Linda Greenhouse
3.00
Format: None pages,
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4. All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
By: John Taliaferro
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay remained a… read more
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5. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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6. The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
By: Noah Feldman
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A surprisingly controversial look at how James Madison redefined the United States in each of his t… read more
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7. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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8. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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9. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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10. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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11. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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12. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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13. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson
4.30
Format: 546 pages, ebook
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more
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14. First: Sandra Day O'Connor
By: Evan Thomas
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were… read more
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"She is an achieving woman without an edge. She is good-looking without being alienatingly beautiful and bright without being alarmingly intellectual,' wrote McGrory."-Evan Thomas, First: Sandra Day O'Connor
15. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
By: Joanne B. Freeman
4.09
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In The Field of Blood, the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portr… read more
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16. Justice Lewis F. Powell:: A Biography
By: John C. Jeffries Jr.
4.16
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr . is an absorbing and readable biography of one of the most important S… read more
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17. The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White: A Portrait Of Justice Byron R White
By: Dennis J. Hutchinson
3.81
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Profiles the college football star who became the highest paid rookie in professional football, a W… read more
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18. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark: A Life of Service (Texas Legal Studies)
By: Mimi Clark Gronlund
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Educat… read more
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