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Biographies
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G-Man : J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Hardback)€44.99
When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine.
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And There Was Light : Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment€41.99
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley : A Biography€45.00
This major biography of Shelley, England's most radical and controversial Romantic poet, is the first to appear in thirty years.