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What Happened
by Mcclellan Scott
$27.95
History - Current Issues - Govt & Politics
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Reviewed By... Alden Graves

It was impossible for me to approach Scott McClellan's What Happened with a completely open mind, as it will be, I think, for many readers. But, if writing is a catharsis, the book must have seemed like the equivalent of five years of intensive therapy to its author.

Despite my initial respect for McClellan's courage in writing the memoir, I couldn't help feeling, as this detailed chronicle of th... read more>>>

A Magnificent Catastrophe : The Tumultuous Election Of 1880 America's First Presidential Campaign
by Larson Edward J
$15.00
History - U.S. - 19th Century
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Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

"They could write like angels and scheme like demons..."

Thus are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson characterized in Edward Larson's account of the election of 1800, in which these Founders stood for the Presidency while around them party ideologies emerged for the first time in the young USA, and (courtesy of Aaron Burr) machine politics and political fundraising were first perfected. High-mindedness... read more>>>

Ida A Sword Among Lions : Ida B. Wells And The Campaign Against Lynching
by Giddings Paula J
$35.00
History - African American
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Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

The best biography always brings its subject to life and simultaneously immerses the reader into the period in which that subject lived. Paula J. Giddings succeeds brilliantly in describing the era in which Ida B. Wells lived and struggled. Gidding's scholarship is prodigious and her mastery of her voluminous sources is nothing less than a tour de force in explaining the social and political conditions that pre... read more>>>

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