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New Biographies & MemoirsJanuary 2019
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Churchill : walking with destiny
by Andrew Roberts
The best-selling author of The Storm of War draws on extensive new materials, from private letters to war cabinet meetings, in a revisionist portrait of the iconic war leader that discusses Churchill's motivations and unwavering faith in the British Empire.
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Handel in London : a genius and his craft by Jane GloverThe veteran conductor and author of Mozart's Women presents an evocative portrait of German composer George Freidrich Handel that places his achievements against a rich backdrop of 18th-century music and society.
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Josef Albers : life and work by Charles DarwentBest known as the painter of the ''Homages to the Square'', a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of color, Albers did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United States following the Nazi dissolution of the Bauhaus in 1933. Drawing on extensive unpublished archival writings, documents, and illustrations, this is the first full-scale biography of one of the 20th-century's great artists.
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Undaunted : surviving Jonestown, summoning courage, and fighting back by Jackie SpeierThis is an inspiring and powerful memoir of California Congresswoman Jackie Speier's lifelong pursuit against injustice and inequality after surviving the Jonestown massacre, when, as a 28 year-old, she joined Conngressman Leo Ryan's delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader Jim Jones's Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana and was shot five times at point-blank range.
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There will be no miracles here
by Casey Gerald
The co-founder of MBAs Across America describes his upbringing in a black evangelical family, his football recruitment into Yale and the brutal wealth gap that is forcing increasingly large numbers of marginalized groups to redefine the American Dream.
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Ronald Reagan : an intellectual biography by David T. ByrneGoing beyond his personal and emotional life, this intellectual biography establishes a rationale for the former president’s motives, discussing the influences of Plato and Adam Smith and the three historical forces that shaped his political philosophy: Christian values, particularly the concept of a universal kingdom of God; America's firm belief in freedom as the greatest political value and its aversion to strong centralized governments; and the appeasement era of World War II, which stimulated Reagan's aggressive and confrontational foreign policy. ​
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Hesse : the wanderer and his shadow by Gunnar DeckerHermann Hesse's stories inspired nonconformity and a yearning for universal values to supplant the political fanaticism tearing Europe apart. Initially, critics thought his work inaccessible to Americans, but the counterculture of the 1960s--and subsequent generations of admirers--emphatically proved the opposite. Gunnar Decker weaves together previously unavailable sources to offer a better understanding of the author's profound sense of alienation from his contemporaries.
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