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Title: Booknotes Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America by Brian Lamb ISBN: 0-8129-3339-7 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A great place to start
Comment: Though this anthology does in no way substitute for the biographies themselves, the book points you toward wonderful biographies of famous and important Americans. A bit uneven , exerpts range from unsatisfying (George S. Patton), to appetite-inducing (George Custer), to concisely authoritative in themselves (Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson). Certain omissions, such as Douglas MacArthur, scream out, while inclusion Anita Hill but not Clarence Thomas seems woefully outdated.
Rating: 4
Summary: An impressive compendium that belongs on your bookshelf
Comment: Brian Lamb, host of C-Span's Booknotes, has pulled together a collection of short, enjoyable, highly personal biographical glimpses into the lives of famous Americans - political notables ranging from John Adams to Lincoln to Edison to Bill Clinton.
Booknotes Life Stories contains more than 75 four-to-eight-page profiles, reflecting the informed, entertaining, and controversial opinions of scores of leading biographers and historians, as told to Lamb in his decade of Booknotes interviews.
While other available biographical references are more detailed, the charm of Booknotes Life Stories is its tendency to cut to the chase, presenting only the relevant points of the historical figure's life in an informal, enlightening, and sometimes irreverent style.
This impressive compendium belongs on the bookshelf of writers, history buffs, students, teachers, politicians, and those who just plain enjoy a good, educational read. (Reviewed by Angelo Parra, award-winning writer and dramatist, who also writes and edits personal and family memoirs.)
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice to meet you
Comment: The origin of this book weighs rather heavily on its content. Some of the pieces are a bit superficial and many tell less about their subject than one would have wished. On the other hand, this book is a great opportunity to get acqainted with people you would not ordinarily read about. Who would ever have thought that Henry Clay was a funny person to be with or that Paul Revere was not the only one on the road that famous night? And there are many surprises: I ,for one, didn't know that Sojourner Truth's first language was not English but Dutch( she grew up in the Hudson Valley). Among the pieces that dig deeper are those on Whittaker Chambers and Harry Truman. For every reader this book will have its eye-openers and discoveries. It does best what it was meant to do: getting you to read more books.
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Title: Booknotes: Stories from American History by Brian Lamb ISBN: 0142002496 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Booknotes : America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas by Brian Lamb ISBN: 0812930290 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 19 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites by Brian Lamb, Richard Norton Smith, Douglas Brinkley, Carol Hellwig, Anne Bentzel, Karen Jarmon, John Splaine, Susan Swain, C-Span (Television Network), Staff of C-Span ISBN: 1586481789 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize by John Hollander, Eavan Boland ISBN: 1573226467 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey by Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 1560254963 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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