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Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart torn between dedicated worship and murderous jealousy, the "dirty little coward" ...  [selengkapnya]

Twenty years ago Paul Johnson published Intellectuals, biographical essays forming what Kingsley Amis described as ""a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind."" It was a bestseller in many of the score of languages into which it was translated, ...  [selengkapnya]

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In the early years of the conquest of the Americas, Ins Surez, a seamstress condemned to a life of toil, flees Spain to seek adventure in the New World. As Ins makes her way to Chile, she begins a fiery romance with Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. ...  [selengkapnya]

For 12 days after his brazen assassination of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was at large, and in Manhunt, historian James L. Swanson tells the vivid, fully documented tale ...  [selengkapnya]

Working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful figures in America in the second half of the twentieth century. While their personalities could hardly have seemed more different, both were largely self-made ...  [selengkapnya]

Gavan Daws combined ten years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with surrviving POWs to write this explosive, first-and-only account of the experiences of the Allied POWs of World War II. The Japanese Army took over 140,000 Allied prisoners, and one in four died the hands of ...  [selengkapnya]

• Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
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