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Lina and Serge - The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev
An authority on the life and works of Serge Prokofiev charts the sad biographical arc of his wife, Lina, who spent some devastating years in the Soviet gulag. Born in Madrid in 1897, Lina was...
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Robert H. Jackson
Jarrow’s engrossing biography should bring Robert H. Jackson some well-deserved attention. Ample detail about his childhood years provides insight into his later character. An excellent speaker, a law...
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FDR and chief justice Hugues
An instructive, vigorous account of FDR’s attempt at court-packing, and the chief justice who weathered the storm with equanimity. Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) isn’t one of the more studied...
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Price Daniel
Marion Price Daniel, Sr., né le 10 octobre 1910, décédé le 25 août 1988, était un homme politique américain du parti Démocrate. Il fut le 38e gouverneur du Texas du 15 janvier 1957 au 15 janvier 1963.
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Ferguson James Edward
James Edward Ferguson, né le 31 août 1871 et mort le 21 septembre 1944 est un homme politique démocrate américain. Il est le 26e gouverneur du Texas entre 1915 et 1917. Plus tard, son épouse Miriam...
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Kennedy Joseph Patrick Jr.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr (25 juillet 1915 - 12 août 1944) est un membre de la célèbre famille Kennedy des États-Unis, et le frère aîné du président John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Né le 25 juillet 1915 à...
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Kennedy Shriver Eunice
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (10 juillet 1921 Brookline (Massachusetts) - 11 août 2009 Hyannis) est une des membres de la famille Kennedy et la fondatrice des Jeux olympiques spéciaux. Elle est la...
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McGranery James
James Patrick McGranery, né le 8 juillet 1895 et mort le 23 décembre 1963, est un juriste et démocrate américain ayant été représentant de Pennsylvanie de 1937 à 1943, date à laquelle MacGranery...
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Dollfuss: An Austrian Patriot
Introduced in this book is Englebert Dollfuss, the Austrian hero who plotted a course for Austria against Nazism, against Socialism, and against unbridled capitalism until his assassination by the...
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Fidel Castro - Cuban Revolutionary
A well-balanced account of the Cuban leader's life and career, with a generous amount of background information and convincing explanations of Castro's several changes of image- -idealistic student...
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Fidel Castro - My Life
El Comandante reveals himself to be a bit of a tree-hugger, a bit of a dreamer and a bit of a loner. Yet he’s always got a practical edge. Cuban leader (or dictator, depending on your take) Castro...
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Fidel Castro is Dead
A sprawling debut novel with a romance at its heart begins in Guyana before traveling to the United States, Thailand and Canada. In June 1975, teenage Abhi and his parents, recent immigrants to the...
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Fidel Castro & Company Inc.
Dr. Urrutia chronicles the steps of Fidel Castro's take over of the political and governmental machinery of Cuba after the revolution. The author had been Provisional President of the country,...
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Vendetta ! - Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers
A specialist in highlighting the drama in espionage and war, Breuer (Shadow Warriors, 1996, etc.) chronicles the escalating clash between President John F. Kennedy and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel...
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Hoodwinking Hitler - The Normandy Deception
Exciting if journalistic description by Breuer (Geronimo!, Hitler's Undercover War, Sea Wolf--all 1989, etc.) of the vast superstructure of deception erected by the Allies to mislead Hitler about the...
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Shadow warriors - The Covert War in Korea
In an engrossing tale of unsung heroes and high-risk missions, military historian Breuer (Feuding Allies, 1995, etc.) penetrates the little-known espionage, propaganda, and guerilla operations of the...
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Contesting Castro
A thorough and well-documented analysis by Paterson (History/U of Connecticut) of how Castro came to power in Cuba and why the United States failed to stop him. Drawing on U.S., Canadian, and British...
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Ochoa Sanchez Arnaldo
Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez (né en 1930 - fusillé le 13 juillet 1989) était un général de division de l'armée cubaine. Compagnon de route de Fidel Castro, il est exécuté pour « haute trahison à la patrie »....
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The Cuba wars
Cogent summary of decades of Cuban-American animus, plus speculation about future détente. When an ailing Fidel Castro handed over the presidency to his younger brother Raúl in February 2008, a U.S....
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Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (BEFEO)
Le Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, le BEFEO, est une revue créée en 1901 de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, qui publie annuellement des travaux scientifiques d’un haut niveau...
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