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№46
Title: Napoleon’s Buttons [$]
Author: Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
Year: 2004
Pages: 384
I happened upon Napoleon’s Button entirely by accident when I was looking for cover art for His Excellency: George Washington; was so intrigued by the premise [...]
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№44
Title: His Excellency: George Washington [$]
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2005
Pages: 352
Hot on the heels of John Adams comes this new book about George Washington; I’ve mentioned before that I don’t usually read a lot of pure history books or [...]
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№37
Title: John Adams [$]
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 2002
Pages: 752
I will admit immediately that I am not a great reader of history, or even of autobiography. I read just about anything and everything, but for whatever reason, have read [...]
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№30
Title: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam [$]
Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Year: 1994
Pages: 496
Among religious historians, Karen Armstrong is a titan. Certainly, she’s prolific: since 1982, she’s published 22 books, as well as [...]
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№25
Title: God Is Not Great [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group
Year: 2007
Pages: 307
Continuing a long and somewhat tawdry literary affair with the much-loved and oft-maligned Christopher Hitchens, I am reading his latest, God Is Not Great. This is [...]
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№37
Title: The Cross-Time Engineer [$]
Author: Leo Frankowski
Publisher: Del Ray
Year: 1986
Pages: 272
Although I’ve reviewed various (newer) books by Frankowski since I began this meme in 2004, I don’t believe I’ve ever re-read the entire Adventures of Conrad Stargard series. I needed [...]
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№33
Title: From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain [$]
Author: Minister Faust
Publisher: Del Ray
Year: 2007
Pages: 390
Having only recently added Soon I Will Be Invincible to my list of books to read, it seemed an unlikely coincidence that I would stumble upon another curious-looking [...]
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№25
Title: The Buried Book [$]
Author: David Damrosch
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Year: 2007
Pages: 336
I’m far from being a historical scholar; I’ve only read Gilgamesh once, and that was years ago. In fact, my interest in history lies more in the [...]
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№23
Title: A History of the World in 6 Glasses [$]
Author: Tom Standage
Publisher: Walker & Company
Year: 2005
Pages: 320
I came to this book by way of my brother. Were I a regular reader of The Economist, for which Standage is a tech [...]
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