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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

by Gordon S. Wood

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 336 pages

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In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, ?What made these men great???and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each?Washington,...

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Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction)

by Richard Yates

Published: 2001-02-01

Paperback: 346 pages

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With a new introduction by Richard Ford"A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." --William StyronFrom the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolat...

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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Huey P. Newton

Published: 2009-09-29

Paperback: 384 pages

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The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Pa...

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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

by David Treuer

Published: 2012-02-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examinati...

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Rhapsody in Red

by Donn Taylor

Published: 2008-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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It Was a Bad Day to Find a Corpse on Campus. Preston Barclay is a self-made recluse (and he likes it that way). Teaching college history allows him time to grieve the loss of his pianist wife and find relief from the musical hallucinations that have been playing in his head since her deat...

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Rhett Butler's People

by Donald McCaig

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 512 pages

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Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event.Thro...

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by Donald McCaig

Published: 2007-11

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Rhinoceros Success

by Scott Alexander

Published: 1980-07

Paperback: 123 pages

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Rhyming Life and Death

by Amos Oz

Published: 2009-04-14

Hardcover: 117 pages

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An ingenious, witty, behind-the-scenes novel about eight hours in the life of an author. A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with ...

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Rhythms: A Novel

by Donna Hill

Published: 2002-09-14

Paperback: 336 pages

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It all began in 1927, in the small town of Rudell, Mississippi, after the sudden and tragic death of Cora Harvey's parents. She has nothing left except her burning desire to become a singer. But her dream will never come true in Rudell, especially if she marries the man she adores, Dr. D...