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(More customer reviews)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.)
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