Authors
- Gordon Thomas
- Martin Dillon
RRP: £18.95
Price: £39.99
Review The Assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy / Robson Books Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-09-09
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.92
Review Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2007-09-17
RRP: £8.00
Price: £7.52
Review Winston Churchill by His Personal Secretary: Recollections of the Great Man by a Woman Who Worked for Him / iUniverse.com:
Creator: Stuart Britton
Publication date: 2007-04-28
Dewey code: 940.541247092
RRP: £18.50
Price: £8.32
Review 800 Days on the Eastern Front: A Russian Soldier Remembers World War II (Modern War Studies): A Russian Soldier Remembers World War II (Modern War Studies) / University Press of Kansas:
Creator: Alison Weir
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-09-01
Dewey code: 942.044092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.11
Review Elizabeth: England's Slandered Queen: The Slandered Queen (England's Forgotten Queens) / The History Press LTD:
Publication date: 2003-04-28
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.33
Review The Soviet Union Under Brezhnev, 1964-82 (Seminar Studies In History) / Longman:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-04-25
Dewey code: 335.4092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.23
Review Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism / University of Illinois Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-06-17
Dewey code: 270.2092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.15
Review Athanasius: the Early Church Fathers / Routledge:
Publication date: 2003-06-16
Dewey code: 973.929092
Price: £18.99
Review Living History / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-20
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.53
Review Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:Why did Pulitzer Prize-winning Theodore Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris controversially choose to write his authorised biography of Ronald Reagan in the form of an historical novel? There's a clue in a quote the book attributes to Jane Wyman, Reagan's first wife. As Ronnie speechified about the Red menace at a 1940s Hollywood party, Wyman allegedly whispered to a friend, "I'm so bored with him, I'll either kill him or kill myself. " This anecdote, if true, is more revealing than Nancy Reagan's charge in the book that Jane had attempted suicide to get Ronnie to marry her in the first place. Jane was no intellectual-Morris cracks that "If Jane had ever heard of Finland, she probably thought it was an aquarium"-but Morris found to his horror, after years of research, that he felt much the same as Jane. Reagan was as boring as a box of rocks and elusive as a ghost. Decades before Alzheimer's clouded Reagan's mind, he showed a terrifying lack of human presence. "I was real proud when Dad came to my high school commencement", reports his son, Michael Reagan. After posing for photos with Michael and his classmates, the future president came up to him, looking right in his eyes, and said, "Hi, my name's Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" Poor Michael replied, "Dad, it's me. Your son. [+]Mike. " Despite deep research and unprecedented access-no previous biography has ever been authorised by a sitting president-Morris could get no closer to Reagan's elusive soul than his children could. So he decided to dramatise Reagan's life with several invented characters-including a fictionalised version of himself witnessing scenes in Reagan's life that happened before Morris was born and an imaginary gossip columnist who makes wicked comments on Reagan's career. This is a strange tactic, forcing one constantly to consult the footnotes at the back to sort things out and Morris makes it tougher by presenting his invented characters as real even in the footnotes. Ultimately, the hubbub over Morris's odd method is beside the point. His fictionalising is rooted in Bob Woodward-like research, and his speculative entry into Reagan's life and mind is plausible, dramatic, literary and lit by dazzling flashes of insight. We cannot verify Morris's notion that Reagan probably approved the illegal Iran-Contra funding without having a clue it was illegal, or that the "Star Wars" program sprang from Reagan's role as Brass Bancroft, who used an Inertia Projector to zap bad guys, and his love of Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel Princess of Mars, which featured glass-domed cities. But however bizarre and ignorant his thoughts were, however cold his heart, the man did crush the "Evil Empire" and, in Morris' opinion, achieve greatness. Morris's book is as bizarre as its subject but he achieves greatness too. -Tim Appelo.
Creator: Merrill D. Peterson
Publication date: 1984-08
Dewey code: 973.3
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.98
Review Jefferson (Library of America (Hardcover)) / The Library of America:
Edition: 1 Reprint
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 333.7516092
RRP: £16.00
Price: £4.40
Review Legacy of Luna / HarperCollins:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-11-25
Dewey code: 947.084092
RRP: £15.00
Price: £7.41
Review The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929 / Verso Books:
Publication date: 2008-07-03
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.90
Review King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: Henrietta Howard / Pimlico:
Creator: Richard E. Cohen
Edition: 2008
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 328.73
RRP: £39.00
Price: £30.07
Review The Almanac of American Politics 2008 (Almanac of American Politics (Paperback)) / National Journal Group:
Publication date: 2003-02-28
Dewey code: 323.092
RRP: £16.73
Price: £27.17
Review White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr Naacp / The New Press:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 968.066092
RRP: £55.00
Price: £36.30
Review Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC / Zed Books Ltd:
Edition: 1st Perennial Ed
Publication date: 2001-11-09
Dewey code: 952.033092
Price: £10.06
Review Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan / HarperCollins:
Edition: 1st Perennial Ed
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 973.90922
RRP: £10.99
Price: £15.48
Review Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 1989-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.00
Review Daughter of the East / Mandarin:
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