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  Lincoln and Churchill -...

  Lewis E. Lehrman

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  Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, as commanders in chief, led their nations to victory—Lincoln in the Civil War, Churchill in World War II. They became revered leaders—statesmen for all time. Yet these two world-famous war leaders have never been seriously compared at book length. Acclaimed historian Lewis Lehrman, in his pathbreaking comparison of both statesmen, finds that Lincoln and Churchill—with very different upbringings and contrasting personalities—led their war efforts, to some extent, in similar ways. As supreme war lords, they were guided not only by principles of honor, duty, freedom, but also by the practical wisdom to know when, where, and how to apply these principles. They made mistakes which Lehrman considers carefully. But the author emphasizes that, despite setbacks, they never gave up. 
  Even their writings and speeches were swords in battle. Gifted literary stylists, both men relied on the written and spoken word to steel their citizens throughout desperate and prolonged wars. 
  Both statesmen unexpectedly left office near the end of their wars—Lincoln by the bullet, Churchill by the ballot.

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  Queenie of Norwich - A...

  LK Wilde

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  "You're Nellie Westrop and don't you forget it. 
  We'll see each other one day, but until we do, take good care of yourself. 
  Live a good life. 
  Now go, my love." 
  From the author of Silver Darlings comes LK Wilde's captivating portrayal of the life of Queenie Read. 
  Heart warming and breaking in equal measure, Queenie of Norwich is perfect for fans of The Foundling, Where the Crawdads Sing, and The Smallest Man. 
  People say you get one life, but I've lived three. 
  I was born Ellen Hardy in 1900, dragged up in Queen Caroline's Yard, Norwich. 
  There was nothing royal about our yard, and Mum was no queen. 
  At six years old Mum sold me. I became Nellie Westrop, roaming the country in a showman's wagon, learning the art of the fair. 
  And I've been the infamous Queenie of Norwich, moving up in the world by any means, legal or not. 
  I've been heart broken, abandoned, bought and sold, but I've never, ever given up. 
  After all, it's not where you start that's important, but where you end up. 
  Based on a true story, Queenie of Norwich is the compelling tale of one remarkable girl's journey to womanhood. 
  Spanning the first half of the 20th century, Queenie's story is one of heartbreak and triumph, love and loss and the power of family. 
  It is a story of redemption, and how, with grit and determination, anything is possible.

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  The Grandes Dames

  Stephen Birmingham

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  The Grandes Dames gives brief and lively portraits of eight American women who wielded their wealth and influence to reshape the nation in the period between the 1870s and the Second World War.  

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  She Was Worth It All - Boys...

  Lacy Weston

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  While the elders and adults struggled to keep secrets in the midst of stolen shoes, stolen dreams, and misbehavior, the four-year-old professor desperately held onto his desire for the future and urgency to be an adult.  The older the professor got the stronger his vision became and it wasn't long before hidden secrets were exposed.  Although the names have been changed the people are real and the story is true right down to the little professor's vision of Esta.

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  Charles Stewart Parnell A...

  F.S.L. Lyons

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  In this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography's great triumphs, Charles Stewart Parnell has never been approached or surpassed.
  
  Charles Stewart Parnell, an enigmatic, icy aristocrat, was the unlikely and unchallenged leader of Irish nationalism from the mid-1870s, in its early heroic phase. Without him, Home Rule would not have become the formidable cause that it was.
  
  Daniel O'Connell first articulated modern Irish nationalism; Parnell first organised it. As leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1875 until his death in 1891, Parnell became a figurehead for Irish nationalist ambition and used his influence to further the cause of Irish independence in the British parliament.
  
  Parnell not only mobilised nationalist Ireland, exploiting discontent with the land system and a desire for political autonomy, he also subverted the usages of nineteenth-century British politics by supporting the introduction of the filibuster into the House of Commons. He divided Gladstone's Liberal party between those who supported Home Rule and those who opposed it and generally forced the Irish question to the heart of British politics where it remained until 1922. Even today, the continuing uncertainty over the future of Northern Ireland is a remote legacy of Parnell.
  
  Parnell's fall – the product of his doomed and passionate love affair with Katharine O'Shea – was the most traumatic moment in nationalist history before 1916. It divided a generation. The passions it gave rise to, brilliantly recalled in the Christmas dinner scene of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, are fully explored in this magnificent work of scholarship.
  Charles Stewart Parnell: Table of Contents
  
  - The Meeting of the Waters
  - Apprenticeship
  - Rising High
  - Crisis
  - In the Eye of the Storm
  - Kilmainham
  - The New Course
  - Gathering Pace
  - Towards the Fulcrum
  - The Galway 'Mutiny'
  - The View from Pisgah
  - In the Shadows
  - Ireland in the Strand
  - Apotheosis
  - The Crash
  - Confrontation
  - Breaking-Point
  - A Time of Rending
  - Last Chance
  - La Commedia è Finita
  - Myth and Reality

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  The Daring Heart of David...

  Jay Milbrandt

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  The captivating, untold story of the great explorer, David Livingstone: his abiding faith and his heroic efforts to end the African slave trade 
  Saint? Missionary? Scientist? Explorer? 
  The titles given to David Livingstone since his death are varied enough to seem dubious—and with good reason. In view of the confessions in his own journals, saint is out of the question. Even missionary is tenuous, considering he made only one convert. And despite his fame as a scientist and explorer, Livingstone left his most indelible mark on Africa in an arena few have previously examined: slavery. 
  His impact on abolishing what he called “this awful slave-trade” has been shockingly overlooked as the centerpiece of his African mission. 
  Until now. 
  The Daring Heart of David Livingstone tells his story from the beginning of his time in Africa to the publicity stunt that saved millions after his death.

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