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The Autobiography of Black Hawk
By: Black Hawk
Published by: Digireads.com
The autobiography of the Sauk Indian Black Hawk, one of the last Indians of the region that is now Illinois to resist the authority of the U. S. government in the early 19th century.
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Price: $5.99
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Benjamin Franklin - His Autobiography
By: Eliot, Charles W. (ed.)
Published by: New Albion Press
Autobiography of an Early-American Genius. This fascinating book about Franklin by Franklin details his extraordinary life from his childhood until the year 1757.
This chronicle of Franklin's life from childhood until 1757 focuses largely on how this business man, scientist, inventor, philosopher, and leader propelled himself from indentured servitude to the service of his country and his fellow man.
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
By: Marks, Leo
Published by: FREE PRESS IMPRINT
In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe.
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Beyond Belief
By: Martin, John
Published by: Accent Press Ltd
An investigation into the mysterious and secret life of Daniel Defoe, the father of the English novel, whose books "Robinson Crusoe", "Moll Flanders" and "Roxana" have sold in vast numbers throughout the world for nearly three centuries.
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Price: $19.99
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The Bibliomania or Book-Madness
By: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Danckwerts, Peter (ed.)
Published by: Tiger of the Stripe
A feast for the book collector: What cutting words did Edward Gibbon write about Thomas Hearne? Why should we not be surprised to find a book on American history by a Spanish admiral in the library of the President of the Royal Society? Who was Captain Cox who ‘could talk as much without book, as any Innholder betwixt Brentford and Bagshot’? Was Polydore Vergil a plagiarist and John Bagford a biblioclast? What is Bloterature?
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Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers
By: Eccleshall, Robert; Walker, Graham
Published by: Routledge
Written by some of the leading authorities on British politics, this dictionary is a wide-ranging, comprehensive guide to the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Sir Robert Walpole to Tony Blair.
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Price: $69.95
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The Black Diggers
By: Hall, Robert
Published by: Aboriginal Studies Press
This book explores the war effort of Aboriginal and Islander Australians during the Second World War and the reasons their contribution has gone unrecognised for so long. This is a comprehensive account of the work black Australians during the years when their country faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. Despite suspicion and prejudice, they earned a place within the digger legend.
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Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
By: Brinkley, David
Published by: Knopf Publishing Group
From one of America’s most revered journalists–a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation’s capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century. Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given us: Franklin D.
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Californio Voices
By: Mora-Torres, Gregorio (ed.)
Published by: University of North Texas Press
In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft recorded memoirs of early Californios, among them 83-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador, and his friend Lorenzo Asisara. Gregorio Mora-Torres presents their voices in English translation (with annotations) and in the original Spanish on facing pages.
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Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger
By: Spellman, Paul N.
Published by: University of North Texas Press
Tells the story of James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944), one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Brooks embodied the raucous era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American West.
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