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Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
Mike Dash
Crown, 2007
Tammany Hall Rocked by Murder Scandal in Manhattan
+ Outstanding.
This is a superior account of the murder of a failed gambling boss, Herman Rosenthal, and the subsequent trials that resulted in the execution of four of his killers, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Lefty Louie" Rosenberg, "Dago Frank" Cirofici and Whitey Lewis (a/k/a Jacob Seidenschner) and a crooked ...
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Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister
Christopher Hibbert
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Christopher Hibbert Scores Again
Christopher Hibbert is one of the greatest and best-beloved contemporary historians. His biography of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is an excellent, informative, entertaining work that lives up to Hibbert's outstanding reputation. Disraeli is not easy to like. Though brilliant and highly ...
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The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, ...
John Heidenry
PublicAffairs, 2007
Baseball lover's only!
+ The Gashouse Gang Personalities
+ Me 'n' Paul
Baseball in times long passed was a very different game, but like today there were some really wild characters to mke the game all the more interesting. The 1934 Cardinals, "The Gashouse Gang" were an exciting, odd collection of great ball payers who played for the love of the game in a way we wish ...
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Alison Weir
Ballantine Books, 2006
Queen Isabella
+ great read for european political junkies
+ Isabella - She Wolf or Victim of Mortimer?
Alison Weir gives a detailed account of the life of Queen Isabella and illustrates that even though Isabella had a priveleged life it did not save her from her husband's jealous favourite who tried to crush her. Weir outlines the woman's point of view and the female role in Medieval society where ...
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides)
Chelsea House Publications, 2004
Haunting book!
+ TIMELESS
+ GREAT!
+ Unexpectedly amazing
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Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London And Paris
Ravenhall Books, 2006
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Shakespeare: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd
Nan A. Talese, 2005
Best Shakespeare bio ever!
+ Shakespeare: The Invisible Man
+ Shakespeare: His Life and Times (But Mostly His Times)
+ Superb
+ shakespeare in historical and literary context
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I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America (Vintage)
Byron Hollinshead
Anchor, 2007
A Mixed Bag
+ Great concept, Broad scope of events
+ Makes you wonder what you'd like to have witnessed in history!
+ Read It, But Don't Buy It
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I Me Mine
George Harrison
Simon & Schuster, 1981
Many insights and interesting tidbits
+ lots of harrsion
+ A modern struggle for meaning
+ A touching portrait
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The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
Nigel Cliff
Random House, 2007
Acting Rivalries on an International Stage
+ What happened to Shakespeare?
+ Drama in the New World
+ Reads like a novel!
+ A Fascinating Look at Early American Culture
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Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution
Arthur Bernon Tourtellot
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
A Reprint of the Essential History of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
+ great narrative of an interesting day in america.
+ Samuel Whittemore, a Family Hero
+ Absorbing and well done
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A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States
Timothy J. Henderson
Hill and Wang, 2007
Taut and concise narrative
+ The crisis that led to the Mexican-American War.
+ Dr Henderson does it again!
+ An intriguing discussion
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Jay Winik
Harper, 2007
A stunning history book!
+ Great History Book!
+ A fine book with flaws
The Great Upheaval is a book that's not just a history book, but also a book that makes for great reading. The author pays equal emphais, I think, to rendering an accurate and detailed historical accounting of the last part of the 18th century as well as providing us with a memorable ride through ...
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Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill
Richard M. Ketchum
Owl Books, 1999
What Really Happened on Bunker Hill
+ Great
+ Quality American History
+ A Tremendously Good Read by a Skilled Historian!
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf, 2007
brilliant as usual
+ A great starting point
+ Historical Op-Ed.
+ Extraordinary Book
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