7 Top biography books like R. E. Lee: A Biography Volume IV by Douglas Southall Freeman

R. E. Lee: A Biography Volume IV

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

4.73

Format: None pages, None

Vol. IV R E Lee Bio

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Cover of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

By: Richard Rhodes

4.39

Format: 886 pages, Paperback

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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3. The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40

By: William Manchester

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

By: Susan Wise Bauer

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the worl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War Series, Volume 2

By: Bruce Catton

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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7. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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8. The Corrections

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.84

Format: 653 pages, Paperback

"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more

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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

9. A Stillness at Appomattox

By: Bruce Catton

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the P… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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10. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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11. The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

3.88

Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more

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"This is pity,"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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12. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
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13. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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14. Mr. Lincoln's Army

By: Bruce Catton

3.48

Format: 93 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

15. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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16. Rerum Novarum: On The Condition Of Working Classes

By: Pope Leo XIII

3.57

Format: None pages,

Rerum novarum(from its first two words, Latin for "of revolutionary change"), or Rights and Duties … read more

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  • nonfiction

17. Glory Road

By: Bruce Catton

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Volume II of The Army of the Potomac The critical months between the autumn of 1862 and midsummer 1… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction

18. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)

By: Robert A. Caro

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more

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19. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

20. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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21. The Coming Fury

By: Bruce Catton , E.B. Long

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Volume I of The Centennial History of the Civil War (3 Vols.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the… read more

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22. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

By: Edward Gibbon , David Womersley

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776-88) is among th… read more

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23. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

24. The Johnstown Flood

By: David McCullough

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

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25. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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26. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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27. All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more

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28. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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29. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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30. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.42

Format: 887 pages, Hardcover

In six weeks in 1940, France's armies were decisively beaten by Germany. A junior French general, r… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

31. R. E. Lee: A Biography Volume IV

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

4.73

Format: None pages, None

Vol. IV R E Lee Bio read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • military history
  • civil war eastern theater
  • nonfiction

17 Top history books like R. E. Lee: A Biography Volume IV by Douglas Southall Freeman

Transform Your Habits

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40

William Manchester

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

Susan Wise Bauer

4.00

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13 Top history books like A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

Transform Your Habits

Washington's Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

Shelby Foote

2.60

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

4.11

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