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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America»rank: 21604par: Thurston Clarke
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: When Senator Robert F. Kennedy entered the presidential race during the chaotic year of 1968, anarchy appeared to be gathering on the horizon. America was coming to grips with an unwinnable war in Vietnam and unacceptable social policies at home. The Last Campaign examines Kennedy's bold (and tragically shortened) efforts to awaken his country's social conscience and moral sensibility. ln contrast to the cocksure attitude of Thirteen Days (RFK's own 1962 memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis), Thurston Clarke reveals a ... |
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John Adams»rank: 18511par: David McCullough
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was 'not a man of the world' and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and ... |
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Playing The Enemy»rank: 33094par: John Carlin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was 'not a man of the world' and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and ... |
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman»rank: 1707par: Richard Feynman
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled 'Judging Books by Their Covers'), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out 'ls Electricity Fire?'), unafraid to offend (see 'You Just Ask Them?'), Feynman informs by entertaining. lt's possible ... |
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David Suzuki: The Autobiography»rank: 29865par: David Suzuki
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled 'Judging Books by Their Covers'), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out 'ls Electricity Fire?'), unafraid to offend (see 'You Just Ask Them?'), Feynman informs by entertaining. lt's possible ... |
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey»rank: 8826par: Ernesto Che Guevara
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled 'Judging Books by Their Covers'), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out 'ls Electricity Fire?'), unafraid to offend (see 'You Just Ask Them?'), Feynman informs by entertaining. lt's possible ... |
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Tommyland»rank: 709par: Tommy Lee
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled 'Judging Books by Their Covers'), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out 'ls Electricity Fire?'), unafraid to offend (see 'You Just Ask Them?'), Feynman informs by entertaining. lt's possible ... |
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Stampede!: The Rise of the West and Canada's New Power Elite»rank: 37396par: Gordon Pitts
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled 'Judging Books by Their Covers'), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out 'ls Electricity Fire?'), unafraid to offend (see 'You Just Ask Them?'), Feynman informs by entertaining. lt's possible ... |
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The Forgotten Soldier»rank: 9476par: Guy Sajer
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled 'Judging Books by Their Covers'), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out 'ls Electricity Fire?'), unafraid to offend (see 'You Just Ask Them?'), Feynman informs by entertaining. lt's possible ... |
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Why We Suck»rank: 179par: Dr Leary
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled 'Judging Books by Their Covers'), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out 'ls Electricity Fire?'), unafraid to offend (see 'You Just Ask Them?'), Feynman informs by entertaining. lt's possible ... |