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Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

This great work effortlessly takes the reader from East Anglia to Massachusetts Bay, from the late Elizabethan era to the mid-17th century. Simultaneously the finest biography of Winthrop and one of the great history books about early New England.

 

 
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Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

People can learn.

George Washington certainly learned... a lot. In An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek, readers can nearly plot the curve. Students of Washington know that, when he died in 1799, he specified in his will that all his slaves be given freedom and generations of his admirers have ultimately excused, rationalized, or expl... read more>>>

 

 
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Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

A fascinating look into the creation of the dictionary to which all others are compared. Winchester's tome is slight but contains elements of history, true crime, and romance (at least the platonic kind). He paints vivid portraits of James Murray (the professor), the lead editor of the OED and Dr. W.C. Minor (the madman), an American expatriate in England and a Civil War veteran who did more than an... read more>>>

 

 
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Reviewed By... Alden Graves

Possibly everything you've ever wanted to know about Elizabeth Taylor--and then some. She might have been blessed with beauty, but it contributed to a traumatic life that few people would have survived. Dishy read.

 

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