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|  | Plutarch's Lives by Arthur Hugh Clough, Bernard Mayes, Dryden, Plutarch
Description not available.Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments. AUTHOR: Arthur Hugh Clough, Bernard Mayes, Dryden, Plutarch
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Robert E. Lee by Emory M. Thomas
Emory M. Thomas's biography of Lee is, in the author's own words, post-revisionist . He steers a middle course between the authoritative, if hagiographic, Douglas Southall Freeman four-volume biography, and the debunking The Marble Man, by Thomas L. Connelly. AUTHOR: Emory M. Thomas
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Philistines at the Hedgerow by Steven S. Gaines
A series of novellas on the property feuds that have occurred among the rich and famous inhabitants of the exclusive Hamptons enclave on New York's Long Island. AUTHOR: Steven S. Gaines
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ulysses S. Grant
The Encyclopedia of Presidents is written in a style that will capture and maintain a reader's interest while at the same time it presents the factual side of our colorful presidential history. Opening with an interest-grabbing introduction, each biography brings out the character of the man -- his early life and its influence on his political aspirations, his election, important events (both good and bad) that occurred during his presidency, and life after his term in office (if applicable).
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Motherland by Fern Schumer Chapman
This memoir tells the story of an intergenerational reckoning: the author accompanies her mother on her first trip back to Germany, where her mother comes to terms for the first time with the loss of her parents, who died during the Holocaust. The trip also transforms the life of the author--who is herself expecting a child--by giving her an entirely new perspective on her relationship with her mother. AUTHOR: Fern Schumer Chapman
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | All My Long Life by Anthony Tommasini
A definitive biography of Virgil Thomson, the distinguished American composer and music critic. One of the most influential figures in the American arts of the 20th century, Thomson was an intimate of Gertrude Stein, Orsen Welles, Lincoln Kirstein, and Paul Bowles, and--as a critic for the Herald Tribune, the New York Review of Books, and other journals--he helped shape public tastes to a degree that still persists. AUTHOR: Anthony Tommasini
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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