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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen People Who Didn't Change The World

by Paul Collins

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The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constella
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Eccentrics: A Study Of Sanity And Strangeness

by James and Weeks

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A SCIENTIST LOOKS AT ECCENTRICS-AND THE ODDITIES THAT KEEP THEM SANE After years of research, a practicing psychotherapist has proof that eccentrics are usually healthier than the rest of us-as well as more creative, more idealistic, more opinionated, and much more fun to read about. Dr. David Weeks fills his hook with fascinating case studies, including Joshua Abraham Norton, who once proclaimed
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Grande Therese: The Greatest Swindle Of The Century

by Hilary Spurling

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While writing her Whitbread Prize-winning Matisse the Master , Hilary Spurling came across the scandal that rocked the French Third Republic. Reading like a novella by Balzac, its plot is a confidence trick of dazzling proportions.
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