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Biography, history (The Columbus Dispatch)
BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY • Our White House, Looking in, Looking Out, a project of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (Candlewick, $29.99, age 9 and older) -- More than 100 authors and illustrators contribute to this generous (256 pages) and beautiful scrapbook of history, anecdotes and lore about the president's house. It is particularly timely as the administration changes.
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Joe de V’s biography (Malaya)
lobal Filipino: The Authorized Biography of Jose de Venecia Jr., the Visionary Five-Time Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines" written by veteran American journalist Brett M. Decker, an editor of the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong talks of what happened when the President of the Philippines and its Speaker met with officials of the ZTE (Zhong Xing Telecommunication ...
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New biography sees John Lennon as selfish, spiteful (Detroit Free Press)
Everybody from Bill Clinton to Fidel Castro loves to remember John Lennon as the dippy Utopian of "Imagine."
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The graphic biography, 'Alan's War,' started with a random question: New in Paperback (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
The revealing black-and-white graphic biography Alan's War (First Second, 336 pp., $24) began by chance. In 1994, author Emmanuel Gilbert asked Alan Cope, a World War II veteran, for directions and started a conversation that lasted more than five years....
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Books: Biography paints ugly portrait of John Lennon (The State)
JOHN LENNON: THE LIFE By Philip Norman (Ecco, 822 pages, $34.95) Everybody loves to remember John Lennon as the dippy Utopian of “Imagine”: “Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion, too.” Less remembered is the Lennon of “Run For Your Life”: “Well I’d rather see you dead little girl / Than to be with another man.”
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Congressmen slam JdV on broadband (Yehey!)
By Jomar Canlas, Reporter Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. drew jeers from former allies in the House of Representatives for an expos detailed in his soon to be released biography that links the first couple to a controversial broadband deal.
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"WARLORD" (New York Post)
"War and soldiering were in his blood: from his first fantasies as a youth to their practice as a young man and, later, their direction as Britain's war leader," writes Carlo D'Este in "Warlord," his masterful new military biography. Previous...
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?The World Is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul? (New York Times)
?The islands of the Caribbean dot and dash their way through the sea, linking different worlds.?
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All About Abe: Bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth celebrated with dozens of new books (The Toledo Blade)
In defeat as well as in victory, the nation’s 16th president can be relied upon to deliver the right words for the situation. “Lincoln was the [Mark] Twain of our politics, “ says Fred Kaplan, author of Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer (Harper, $27.95). “Since Lincoln, no president has written his own words and addressed his contemporary audience or posterity with equal and enduring ...
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Congressmen slam JdV on broadband (The Manila Times)
Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. drew jeers from former allies in the House of Representatives for an exposé detailed in his soon to be released biography that links the first couple to a controversial broadband deal.
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