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Biographies in History Book Club |
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Mitchell Zuckoff - Random House
Format: Paperback
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 ~ 7:00pm
You've heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary... |
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Stalin
EÌdvard S Radzinskij
Format: Book
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016 ~ 7:00pm
From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints... |
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Rocket Boys
Homer Hickam - Delta; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016 ~ 7:00pm
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's... |
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing - Basic Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017 ~ 7:00pm
The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly... |
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His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis - Knopf; Rough-cut edition
Format: Book
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 ~ 7:00pm
The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. With... |
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
Format: Book
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 ~ 7:00pm
Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
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Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 ~ 7:00pm
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual... |
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