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Book Review: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Book Review: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Man of la BookAugust 1, 2023

Lincoln’s ability to let go of personal slights is one of his attributes, infusing his administration with talented individuals, albeit with large egos

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Book Review: Night by Ellie Wiesel
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Book Review: Night by Elie Wiesel

Man of la BookJune 20, 2023

Night by Ellie Wiesel is a memoir of the author’s experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald

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Book Review: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
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Book Review: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Man of la BookNovember 29, 2022

A wonderful conclusion to the award-winning trilogy. The biography starts after Roosevelt has left the White House, and follows him until his death

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Book Review: Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
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Book Review: Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Man of la BookOctober 13, 2022

Politics and policy took front and center in Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, which was interesting, but Mr. Roosevelt’s life to a second seat

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Book Review: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
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Book Review: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Man of la BookSeptember 22, 2022

This was a fascinating book, and certainly intensively researched. Mr. Morris’ narrative is very readable, it is obvious he is fascinated Mr. Roosevelt

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Thoughts on: Auschwitz by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
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Book Review: Auschwitz by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli

Man of la BookOctober 20, 2011

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli is a non-fiction memoir of a Jewish medical doctor who performed “research” on other Jews

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Book Review: Washington – A Life by Ron Chernow
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Book Review: Washington – A Life by Ron Chernow

Man of la BookOctober 29, 2010

This is the kind of history book I love. Mr. Chernow tells of little known anecdotes which not only tell of of the character, but even relevant to this day

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Book Review: John Quincy Adams by Paul C. Nagel
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Book Review: John Quincy Adams by Paul C. Nagel

Man of la BookOctober 18, 2010

Based on JQA’s diary which spanned an amazing seven decades – arguably the “most valuable historical and personal journal kept by any prominent American”

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Book Review: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
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Book Review: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Man of la BookOctober 4, 2010

In this biography, we meet Alexander Hamilton as a young boy in the Caribbean, a bastard son, soon an orphan, to a mother who has been jailed for adultery

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