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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn McKay Brodie (Paperback 1984)

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Starting in a hollowed log of wood'some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!" So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of the lower Congo in 1863, wrote to Monckton read more...
 
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn McKay Brodie (Paperback 1998)

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Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his read more...
 
Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon by Fawn McKay Brodie (Paperback 1983)

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Portrays Nixon as a complex, multicharacter man with grandiose fantasies who used lies and denials to gain approval and to catapult himself to power, only to engineer his own destruction
 

 


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