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'George Sand' (Aurore Dupin, 1804-1876) was France's bestselling writer, rivalled in her time only by Victor Hugo. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel: her long, troubled romance with Chopin was just one of many affairs with well-known figures, but her most desperate love was for a beautiful actress.

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Alabama Governor George Wallace captured the national spotlight in fiery opposition to Civil Rights. But biographer Stephan Lesher suggests Wallace's more lasting significance is that of working class spokesman against the intrusion of "big" government. "The first serious study of the whole of Mr. Wallace's career".--The New York Times Book Review.

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This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties.

This insightful work chronicles the life of George Washington Carver, the renowned African American scientist and teacher.

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This encyclopedia offers an A-Z retrospective of George Washington's life, career, and historical significance, based in large part on Washington's own words and those of his contemporaries.

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This follow-up book to "The Genius of George Wright" contains transcripts of 29 interviews of individuals close to GW, edited lightly for clarity. In addition, the book includes a comprehensive annotated tune list, displaying every song that George Wright recorded for commercial release, listing the album(s) on which a tune appeared, a valuable reference tool for fans of GW's music.

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After a childhood among artists, French migrs and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father's castle in the Highlands. By allowing Georgiana's own voice to be heard through her letters and journals Brenda Niall has brought a legendary colonial figure into authentic vibrant life.

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Using archival materials from Gerald Fords term, this book shows how the constitutional presidency reinforces even the politically weakest presidents under the separation of powers system. The constitutional presidency endures even when political circumstances may foreclose other informal personal powers of persuasion.

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The celebrated biography of Sir Gerald du Maurier captures the spirit and charm of the charismatic actor-manager of his time.

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"In the Apaches' final campaign, Geronimo led 19 warriors against 5,000 U.S. troops. No Apaches were killed, and the U.S. suffered heavy casualties. For the Apaches could travel seventy miles a day on"

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The first biography of Geronimo aimed at the high school and undergraduate student audience, this book provides a balanced account of Geronimo's life in the context of key historical and cultural events of his lifetime.

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From the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is the hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism.

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It's not easy being in the public eye. There's always someone watching, waiting for you to mess up. That's where Jim Mahoney was called. For over 40 years, he was the go-to guy for Hollywood's elite when they needed to clean up a scandal or avoid one altogether. He learned the tricks of the trade fast and he's finally sharing some of his best stories in his new book, Get Mahoney!.

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It's not easy being in the public eye. There's always someone watching, waiting for you to mess up. That's where Jim Mahoney was called. For over 40 years, he was the go-to guy for Hollywood's elite when they needed to clean up a scandal or avoid one altogether. He learned the tricks of the trade fast and he's finally sharing some of his best stories in his new book, Get Mahoney!.

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Ralph White tells the remarkable story of how as a young banker in Saigon during the final weeks before the city fell to the North Vietnamese, he saved the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families, via a secret American-run network he discovered -- Argo meets The Fall of Saigon.

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A stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child.

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Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, offers this hard-hitting memoir, in which he emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced few.

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Famed conservationist and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot knew every United States President from Grant to Truman. His idol was Theodore Roosevelt, whom he served while head of the United States Forest Service and whom he emulated when he was chief executive of Pennsylvania. This first published biography (except for his autobiograp

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The wonderful life I've lived from May 7, 1953 to now from Hillsborough, NC, now residing in Gastonia, NC.

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English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.