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|  | The Metaphysical Club by Henry Leyva, Louis Menand
Louis Menand's intellectual history discusses the ideas that emerged from the meetings of The Metaphysical Club, an informal group out of late-nineteenth-century Massachusetts, whose members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. The groups unrecorded discussions have indirectly changed the American way of thinking. A New York Times Editor's Choice for 2001. AUTHOR: Henry Leyva, Louis Menand
PUBLISHER: HighBridge Company
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Duty by Bob Greene
Through a study of his dying father's hero, Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets, journalist Bob Greene gains a greater understanding of the events and values of his father's generation and gleans insight into the depth of that generation's disappointment with the generation that followed. Some of this book draws on the elder Greene's WW II journals. AUTHOR: Bob Greene
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Cardinal O'Connor by Terry Galway
Description not available.An anecdotal portrait of the late Archbishop of New York shares the memories of those who knew John Cardinal O'Connor the best, from Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, to ordinary people whose lives were touched by the religious leader, discussing O'Connor's fierce devotion to the church, civil liberties, social justice, and spiritual well-being. AUTHOR: Terry Galway
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Country under My Skin by Giocanda Belli, Kristina Cordero
Gioconda Belli grew up in Managua, had a privileged childhood, married young, became a poet, and was in Nicaragua during the revolution as a Sandinista, after which she lived abroad in exile until the establishment of the Sandinista government, in which she held a prominent post. Looking back on her life. Belli sums up the effects on her personal life and character of her long career as a revolutionary. AUTHOR: Giocanda Belli, Kristina Cordero
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Been There Done That by David Fisher, Eddie Fischer
Eddie Fisher dishes out his kiss-and-tell life story AUTHOR: David Fisher, Eddie Fischer
PUBLISHER: NewStar Media, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Charlie Chaplin & His Times by Adams Morgan, Kenneth S. Lynn
A new biography of the famous actor and comedian. Exhaustively researched, it follows Chaplin from the obscurity of his early life in London--a history that, Lynn maintains, Chaplin distorted in his own accounts--to the fame of his success as an actor and director. AUTHOR: Adams Morgan, Kenneth S. Lynn
PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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