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The Concord Quartet
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In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds of the age, ...Read Review
Blackbeard
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While other pirates have faded from memory, Blackbeard still conjures up vivid imagery of pirates terrorizing people and shipping for about two years ...Read Review
The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
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Could there be a new biography that reveals anything unexpected about the Founding Father? Possibly, but this isn’t it. Unger utilizes correspondence ...Read Review
Cradle of Violence : How Boston’s Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolution
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Early American history, as taught in grammar schools, has most Americans believing that the American Revolution was fomented and fought by the ...Read Review
Captain John Smith : Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream
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Books about both John Smith and the early colonization efforts at Jamestown are numerous, and this book doesn’t cover any new ...Read Review
The Court of the Last Tsar : Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas ll
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The vanished world of Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, comes vividly to life in Greg King’s splendid new book. After ...Read Review
The Girl from Botany Bay
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A crime has been committed: a young woman on foot, journeying alone on the road, has been accosted by three highwaywomen. She’s ...Read Review
The Sancy Blood Diamond
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The centuries-long fascination with diamonds, especially large ones, has progressed well beyond an attraction to shiny objects. Like others before her (see Marian ...Read Review
