Publication date: 2003-08-07
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.44
Review An Audience with Tony Benn / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-15
Dewey code: 945.0910924
Price: £11.99
Review Mussolini / Random House USA Inc:
Edition: First Edition
Publication date: 2002-02-01
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.99
Review Our Harry's War: 1553 Sgt. G.H. Morgan Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-1918 / Rydan Publishing:
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial Ed
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 951.505
RRP: £16.95
Price: £6.91
Review In Exile from the Land of Snows: The Definitive Account of the Dalai Lama / HarperCollins:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-09-18
Dewey code: 973.923092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £3.79
Review LBJ: Architect of American Ambition / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Creator: William Matthews
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-07-30
Dewey code: 907
RRP: £15.95
Price: £20.13
Review The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661 v.2: 1661 Vol 2 (Diary of Samuel Pepys (Paperback)) / University of California Press:
Creator: Alex Dubinsky
Publication date: 2001-09-01
Dewey code: 949.71030922
RRP: £20.99
Price: £0.30
Review Milosevic and Markovic: The End of the Serbian Fairytale / McGill-Queen's University Press:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2001-02-03
Dewey code: 968.9104092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £34.37
Review Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal / Blake Publishing:
Authors
- Yasmina Reza
- Pierre Guglielmina
Publication date: 2008-05-13
Dewey code: 944.084092
RRP: £15.50
Price: £8.03
Review Dawn Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy / Potter Style:
Publication date: 2007-08-24
Dewey code: 949.6502092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.99
Review King Zog / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
Publication date: 1983-01
Dewey code: 940.54724304355
Price: £13.99
Review Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience / Vintage Books:
Publication date: 2006-01-09
Dewey code: 958.1046092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.76
Review The Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Edition: Touchstone ed
Publication date: 2000-07-17
Dewey code: 973.924
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.52
Review Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate / Touchstone:There are two ways to look at this bestseller by Watergate scoopmeister Woodward. First, it's an original take on Clinton's sex scandal, framing it as the latest consequence of Nixon's assault on the U. S. political system. Woodward sketches each president's tussles with scandal managing after Watergate permanently turned up the press heat on the White House. Ford lies about a meeting concerning a potential deal to pardon Nixon, but remains convinced he did nothing wrong. Carter's pious advocacy of truth telling backfires when he's confronted with conundrums involving his pal Bert Lance, the fallout from CIA-provided hookers, and cash for King Hussein. Reagan's men try to make him understand the lies and shocking wrongness of the Iran-Contra debacle, but he simply, stubbornly doesn't get it. And by the time prosecutors interview Reagan in 1992, he's so ill he can't remember his own oldest friends and advisers. All provocative stuff, some of it new. [+]But most readers will flip to the book's second half, a fly-on-the-wall account of the backroom mud- wrestling in both the Clinton and Starr camps in the Monicagate morass. It's a trove of racy facts (mostly from anonymous sources). We read that Clinton called Nixon a "war criminal," yet tried to minimise Watergate in his Nixon eulogy, that he disgusted Ford and Jack Nicklaus by cheating while golfing with them, and that he kept falsely assuring aides, "I'm retired! [as an adulterer]. " We hear Hillary's alleged words of agony and see the pain on Bill's face after Chelsea reads The Starr Report on the Internet. Starr comes off like RoboCop without the human side. Woodward calls him "pathetic and unwise" in rejecting his staff's urgent demand not to send the lurid details of presidential sex to Congress. "I love the narrative!" Starr weirdly exulted, according to Woodward's new Deep Throat (or Throats). Since Monica was interrogated at Starr's mother-in- law's apartment, which he called "Grandma's place," ethics expert Sam Dash suggested they call it "Operation Red Riding Hood. " What sharp teeth everyone in this book has! To tell the truth, Woodward doesn't really knit together 25 years' worth of scandals into a single strong narrative. But the Clinton part is the closest thing yet to what we all crave: a tale of Monicagate with some of the flavour of a John Grisham thriller. -Tim Appelo.
Authors
- Robert Bunker
- Raymond W. Thorp
Publication date: 1969-06-01
Dewey code: 978.020924
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.51
Review Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (A Midland Book) / Indiana University Press:
Authors
- Louise Krasniewicz
- Michael Blitz
Dewey code: 796.41092
RRP: £16.95
Price: £16.14
Review Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies): A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) / Greenwood Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1996-04-12
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.99
Review Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 1993-05
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.55
Review William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain (Library of Religious Biography) / Wm B Eerdmans Pub Co:
Publication date: 2007-05-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.43
Review The World of Flora Thompson / Tempus Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-03-27
Dewey code: 782.0092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.18
Review The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2007-08-30
RRP: £30.00
Price: £18.57
Review Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power / Allen Lane:
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