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Dewey Defeats Truman

Dewey Defeats Truman

1997 ·
·3.57·142 Ratings ·368 Pages
“ The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ” ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    2003·
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    With a new introduction by Thomas MallonDubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written of al
  • Henry and Clara

    1995·
    ·3.52·570 Ratings
    Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris were engaged to be married, when they were invited to share the Presidential box with the Lincolns at Ford's Theater on the evening of Good Friday, 1865. When John Wilkes Booth crept into the box, the young couple became wi
  • A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries

    1995·
    ·3.93·146 Ratings
    Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy invol
  • Bandbox

    2005·
    ·3.19·177 Ratings
    "Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it exited the pneumatic tube. . . ." With that bottle we enter Bandbox, a hugely successful magazine of the 1920s, run by bombastic Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris. Harris's most ambitious protégé ("the bast
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    2001·
    ·3.35·100 Ratings
    A galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and otherworldly triumph, by the writer John Updike called "one of the most interesting American novelists at work". It's the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison's p
  • Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy

    2003·
    ·3.35·157 Ratings
    Exactly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. Mrs. Paine's Garage is the tragic story of this well-intentio
  • Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years

    2015·
    ·3.61·330 Ratings
    Adding to a fiction chronicle that has already spanned American history from the Lincoln assassination to the Watergate scandal, Thomas Mallon now brings to life the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president in modern tim
  • Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

    2009·
    ·3.37·140 Ratings
    From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry
  • Watergate

    2012·
    ·3.58·1,271 Ratings
    From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountabl
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