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This book entails Mel Eichelbaum's memoir detailing the motivational forces and influences that steered him into the legal profession, his journey to becoming a Legal Aid lawyer, and primarily covering the significant civil rights and poverty law reform cases in which he was involved.

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The story of an Aussie 'hero' who became one of the most famous and influential journalists of the day, reporting for the London Times on China during the Boxer Rebellion and the fall of the last emperor.

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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals.

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After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell, born in Massachusetts in 1775, was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehous...

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The remarkable story of Thomas Coningsby (1657-1729) exploring, for the first time, his tumultuous public and personal career.

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Focuses on British and Irish politics at the start of the eighteenth century. This book tells the story of a powerful and eccentric peer, Thomas Coningsby (1657-1729), who played a key role in Ireland as the king's 'saviour' at the Battle of the Boyne and as one of the top administrators of the Protestant ascendancy.

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This biography shows the importance of experienced soldier-scholars with high integrity on national security teams and provides the first systematic mining of the documents Goodpaster wrote on national security. It demonstrates how Goodpaster was able to adapt best practices t...

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Pinsky, a former poet laureate of the United States, draws on the biblical chronicle of David's life as well as later commentaries and the Psalms to weave the many strands of David's story into this narrative.

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This is a biography of a great American statesman and U.S. Senator of the nineteenth century.

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Presenting a biography of the illustrious navigator Matthew Flinders, this work is timed to coincide with the bicentenary of the commencement of his voyage on the Investigator, which resulted in the first recorded circumnavigation of the Australian continent.

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This insightful book relates how Emperor Haile Selassie helped shape America's image of Africa and how that image continues to evolve in the United States today.

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A behind-the-scenes memoir of the of the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he added more phrases to the language than any man since Shakespeare, yet he was also the Apostle of the British Empire, a man who incarnated an era for millions of people who did not normally read poetry.

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How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives

There are more than 700 biographies of Hitler, yet this is the first thorough study of Eva Braun, his secret mistress.

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A loyal servant of the Ottoman Empire in his early career, Sati' al-Husri (1880-1968) became one of Arab nationalism's most articulate and influential spokesmen. His shift from Ottomanism, based on religion and the multi-national empire, to Arabism, defined by secular loyalties and the concept of an Arab nation, is the theme of William Cleveland's account of 'the making of an Arab nationalist'.

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