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This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Sparks life revealing her as she really was. Once, she co
In this beautifully written history of Americas formative period, an eminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as an internally fragile
In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North Americas three largest countriesthe United States, Mexico and
Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britains mainland colonies, fuelled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the rivalries of Eur
In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America's three largest countries--the United States, Mexi