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While this correspondence inspired Testament of Youth, Brittain's classic memoir of her wartime experiences, most of the letters are published here for the first time. Taken together, the letters present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five idealistic youths caught up in the cataclysm of war. Spanning the duration of the war, the letters vividly convey the uncertainty, confusion, and almost unbearable suspense of the tumultuous war years. They offer both male and female perspectives and reveal important historical insights by allowing the reader to witness and understand the Great War from a variety of viewpoints: that of the soldier in the trenches, of the volunteer nurse in military hospitals, and even of the civilians on the home front. As World War I fades from living memory, these letters are a powerful and stirring testament to a generation forever shattered and haunted by grief, loss, and promise unfulfilled.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6ns848wwmjckypbw8mrjmv.jpg?v=02f93580ce","LUNJtRM{ofxa~Wxuofay4.NGayay",1998,427,[389],{"id":390,"slug":391,"name":392},"01kjwtazwanjydpgg9x26w83y6","vera-brittain-gxdj","Vera Brittain",[394,395],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":193,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":398,"themes":400,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[195,169,399],"poignant",[],[402,548,714],{"key":403,"params":404,"works":405},"genre_year",{"genre":29,"year":9},[406,427,461,490,504,525],{"id":407,"slug":408,"title":409,"description":410,"primary_cover_url":411,"cover_blurhash":412,"first_publish_year":413,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":414,"authors":415,"genres":420,"series":423,"enrichment":424},"01kx6nyrp03amjj0m0whj3zj9t","a-world-undone-uvx7","A World Undone","The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nyrpgst0r14h26xet2ac7.jpg?v=7aa1bccbd8","L5AB^Gx[46t600RQHZjG00i_{#Wo",2006,704,[416],{"id":417,"slug":418,"name":419},"01kx6nyrpbs97wrentewh8gf5j","g-j-meyer-shgz","G. J. 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Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to go alone into a haunted barn looking for the truth. She's even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair's associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is no hoax--she's real, she's angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Can Sarah and Matthew discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance...before she destroys them all?\"--","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ff41z0r7j9w41re40v7xr.jpg?v=9474da65d5","L8FqRF@J?Wko01~m-oni%LKK4;$%",2012,"4.00",431,[438],{"id":439,"slug":440,"name":441},"01ktt0qrs0nbfggypmdev1nbeq","simone-st-james-74u8","Simone St. James",[443,447,451,452],{"id":444,"name":445,"slug":446,"is_fiction":19},212,"Historical Mystery","historical-mystery",{"id":448,"name":449,"slug":450,"is_fiction":19},35,"Paranormal Romance","paranormal-romance",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},{"id":453,"name":454,"slug":455,"is_fiction":19},141,"Paranormal","paranormal",[],{"pace":118,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":458,"themes":460,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[459,223],"mysterious",[],{"id":462,"slug":463,"title":464,"description":465,"primary_cover_url":466,"cover_blurhash":467,"first_publish_year":315,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":468,"authors":469,"genres":474,"series":481,"enrichment":487},"01kx6ny19y3xe315qfmf32w9ge","to-hell-and-back-24ry","To Hell and back","\"The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with ... 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The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned heads across Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph, a man who tried, through sheer hard work, to stave off the coming chaos in his empire; in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife; in Britain, King Edward VII, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and British admiral Jacky Fisher, the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea. There are the would-be peacemakers as well, among them prophets of the horrors of future wars whose warnings went unheeded: Alfred Nobel, who donated his fortune to the cause of international understanding, and Bertha von Suttner, a writer and activist who was the first woman awarded Nobel's new Peace Prize. Here too we meet the urbane and cosmopolitan Count Harry Kessler, who noticed many of the early signs that something was stirring in Europe; the young Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and a rising figure in British politics; Madame Caillaux, who shot a man who might have been a force for peace; and more. With indelible portraits, MacMillan shows how the fateful decisions of a few powerful people changed the course of history. 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Margaret MacMillan follows the monarchs, generals, diplomats, and financiers — Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, Franz Joseph, Winston Churchill, and others — whose rivalries, alliances, and miscalculations pushed Europe toward war, alongside the era's overlooked peace advocates. Argues the war was not inevitable but the result of specific decisions by specific people.",{"key":549,"params":550,"works":551},"genre_mood",{"genre":33,"mood":123},[552,597,625,647,668,689],{"id":553,"slug":554,"title":555,"description":556,"primary_cover_url":557,"cover_blurhash":558,"first_publish_year":559,"community_rating_avg":205,"community_rating_count":120,"page_count":560,"authors":561,"genres":570,"series":592,"enrichment":593},"01kjq87dgp1rrmfjh8jd74anv3","anna-karenina-rban","Anna Karenina","This classic novel explores the tragic consequences of a passionate affair between Anna, a married socialite, and the dashing Count Vronsky. As Anna abandons her loveless marriage for love, she faces the harsh judgment of Russian high society. 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What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman--it's next to impossible--and the proper way for women in India to ride scooters--perched sideways--are early signs that life here is less Westernized than she'd counted on. Living in Delhi for more than five years, Kennedy experiences friendships, love affairs, and losses that open a window onto the opaque world of Indian politics and culture--and alter her own attitudes about everything. In her effort to understand the hopes and dreams that motivate her new friends, Kennedy peels back India's globalized image as a land of call centers and fast-food chains and finds an ancient place where, in many ways, women's lives have scarcely changed for centuries.--From publisher description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ha85epr7hpywvh4aertrt.jpg?v=af190aa4b7","L2Ca0f04CGT10G-+Dl$~00M,^1NH",342,[606],{"id":607,"slug":608,"name":609},"01kx2ha8594bx8413x21426yh8","miranda-kennedy-oygb","Miranda Kennedy",[611,615,619],{"id":612,"name":613,"slug":614,"is_fiction":19},33,"Contemporary Romance","contemporary-romance",{"id":616,"name":617,"slug":618,"is_fiction":18},85,"Travel","travel",{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":118,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":622,"themes":624,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[123,623],"adventurous",[],{"id":626,"slug":627,"title":628,"description":629,"primary_cover_url":630,"cover_blurhash":631,"first_publish_year":632,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":633,"authors":634,"genres":639,"series":643,"enrichment":644},"01kx7d3ekmkcdc49baysz2md50","arbella-englands-lost-queen-m72h","Arbella England's Lost Queen","This biography restores Arbella, England's \"lost queen,\" to vivid life. Layd Arbella Stuart emerges, through Sara Gristwood's masterly storytelling, as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world. Arbella was part Tudor, part Stuart, and a niece of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was introduced at court as a young girl and acknowledged as the heir to the throne by Elizabeth I. As Gristwood brilliantly shows, Arbella was literally too royal for her own good. A critical pawn in the struggle for succession, particularly during the long, tense period when Elizabeth lay dying, the young Arbella endured years of isolation, confined amid the rural splendors of Hardwick Hall by her scheming and powerful grandmother. The accession of James I, Arbella's first cousin, ended her royal aspirations but thrust her into James's licentious court. Then, at age thirty-five, Arbella risked everything to make her own forbidden marriage. An escape in disguise, a wild flight abroad, and capture at sea led, in the end, to an agonizing death in the Tower of London. Yet nothing is as remarkable as the almost modern freedom with which, in a series of extraordinary letters -- as passionate and extensive as those of any other woman of this suffocating age -- Arbella Stuart revealed her own compelling personality. Arbella is \"an enthralling account of an extraordinary life\" (Spectator). - Jacket flap.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7d3em3cy771hw9vycsbn3h.jpg?v=9ed67e2617","LGGRq~~U5rs8b}IpWURO9GD%%gVt",2005,450,[635],{"id":636,"slug":637,"name":638},"01kx7d3ekzdp0p49hha4zdcwzc","sarah-gristwood-3ask","Sarah Gristwood",[640,641,642],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":249,"name":250,"slug":251,"is_fiction":18},{"id":153,"name":154,"slug":155,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":303,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":645,"themes":646,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[623,123],[],{"id":648,"slug":649,"title":650,"description":651,"primary_cover_url":652,"cover_blurhash":653,"first_publish_year":654,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":655,"authors":656,"genres":661,"series":664,"enrichment":665},"01kx7d8884njsqhd9pt04vn6tb","sisi-empress-on-her-own-twyb","Sisi Empress on Her Own","NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Philippa Gregory, Paula McLain, and Daisy Goodwin comes a sweeping and powerful novel by Allison Pataki. Sisi tells the little-known story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, the Princess Diana of her time, in an enthralling work of historical fiction that is also a gripping page-turner. Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth--fondly known as Sisi--captures the hearts of her people as their \"fairy queen,\" but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz not only with imperial waltzes and champagne but with temptations, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue. Feeling stifled by strict protocols and a turbulent marriage, Sisi grows restless. A free-spirited wanderer, she finds solace at her estate outside Budapest. There she rides her beloved horses and enjoys visits from the Hungarian statesman Count Andrássy, the man with whom she's unwittingly fallen in love. But tragic news brings Sisi out of her fragile seclusion, forcing her to return to her capital and a world of gossip, envy, and sorrow where a dangerous fate lurks in the shadows. Through love affairs and loss, dedication and defiance, Sisi struggles against conflicting desires: to keep her family together, or to flee amid the collapse of her suffocating marriage and the gathering tumult of the First World War. In an age of crumbling monarchies, Sisi fights to assert her right to the throne beside her husband, to win the love of her people and the world, and to save an empire. But in the end, can she save herself? Featuring larger-than-life historic figures such as Bavaria's \"Mad King Ludwig\" and the tragic Crown Prince Rudolf, and set against many of Europe's grandest sites--from Germany's storied Neuschwanstein Castle to England's lush shires--Sisi brings to life an extraordinary woman and the romantic, volatile era over which she presided. Praise for Sisi \"Pataki successfully juggles numerous political and personal plot lines while maintaining her focus on a fascinating central character. . . . Readers of Pataki's first book will want to know the rest of Sisi's story, but this novel stands on its own for historical fiction fans.\"--Library Journal \"A deeply moving book about a complex character.\"--BookPage \"A satisfying saga of the late Habsburg period.\"--Kirkus Reviews \"Pataki brings richness and relevance to the story of the woman who worked tirelessly to protect the face of an empire.\"--Publishers Weekly \"Pataki simply stuns me with each new book. I savor each page. Sisi is her best yet!\"--Kathie Lee Gifford \"Readers will enjoy the glorious dilemma of whether to turn the pages swiftly, breathlessly following Empress Sisi from one astonishing, heartbreaking adventure to the next, or to linger and luxuriate in Pataki's vivid, sumptuous descriptions of the Habsburg court.\"--Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker \"This entire novel is irresistible--completely impossible to put down! Pataki reimagines the reign of the nineteenth-century Princess Diana in this stunning book.\"--Michelle Moran, internationally bestselling author of Rebel Queen \"Emotional, exuberant, masterly, Sisi swept me into the glittering, treacherous world of the waning Habsburg empire. 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You must always paint love.' The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's fierce determination wavers. Her father is imploring her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her sister Lydia is falling mysteriously ill, and worse, Mary is beginning to doubt herself. Then one evening a friend introduces her to Edgar Degas and her life changes forever. Years later she will learn that he had begged the introduction, but in that moment their meeting seems a miracle. So begins the defining period of her life and the most tempestuous of relationships. In I Always Loved You, Robin Oliveira brilliantly re-creates the irresistible world of Bell Époque Paris, writing with grace and uncommon insight into the passion and foibles of the human heart. 'What a joy it is to be back in Bell Époque Paris with my old artist friends, guided by the masterful pen of Robin Oliveira whose finely crafted language brings to light the complicated relationships of four of the principals of the Impressionist movement - Cassatt, Degas, Manet, Morisot. Only an omniscient narrator has the latitude to disclose the private yearnings and fears of these four as they grapple with issues of art execution, scathing reviews, self-doubt, elusive fame, tempestuous love, and creeping morality. Here, in beautiful prose, juicy with nuance and depth, is the intimate, heart-wrenching story behind Impressionist art history, with Mary Cassatt at its center. A glorious achievement.' Susan Vreeland, author of Luncheon of the Boating Party 'I Always Loved Youis a marvelous work, enthralling, illuminating, and beautifully rendered. Robin Oliveira brings Bell Époque Paris and the fascinating artists and writers who walked its streets and filled its salons to the fullness of vivid, fiercely passionate life.' Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker 'Oliveira's breathtaking, cinematic novel transported me to late-nineteenth-century Paris, to lively salons and cafés, and to the refuge of the studio . . . This story reveals what it means to be an artist who is also a woman, and you will feel both the anguish and the triumph down in your bones.' Kelly O'Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott 'In artfully crafted prose as penetrating and radiant as an Impressionist masterpiece, Robin Oliveira's moving portrait of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas is a poignant reminder that beneath the majestic sweep of history and ideas are men and women with yearnings and trepidations as urgent and palpable as our own. I Always Loved Youevokes, in brilliant detail, the nuances of culture, art, and society in the cafés and salons of late-nineteenth-century Paris while bringing to life the spellbinding whirl of artists, writers, and savants who made La Belle Époque legendary.' 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A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her--and her career is stalled--when she stumbles upon an unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on their annual return to the remote Azorean Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, where bulls run down village streets, volcanoes are active, and the people celebrate festas to ease their saudade, a longing so deep that the Portuguese word for it can't be fully translated. Years later, California is in a terrible drought, the wildfires seem to never end, and Diana finds herself still dreaming of those islands and the chuva--a rain so soft you don't notice when it begins or ends. With her troublesome Labrador retriever, Murphy, in tow, Diana returns to the islands of her dreams only to discover that there are still things she longs for--and one of them may be a most unexpected love.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2acnqmrgtafbqs3bq969nc.jpg?v=1236043dfc","LsEr9Fbwt7ofT#t6oIkCH?oeWBoc",238,[698],{"id":699,"slug":700,"name":701},"01kx2acnqg4p9h6y2fyrf4zezy","diana-marcum-ymuj","Diana Marcum",[703,704,708,709],{"id":612,"name":613,"slug":614,"is_fiction":19},{"id":705,"name":706,"slug":707,"is_fiction":19},144,"Women's Fiction","womens-fiction",{"id":616,"name":617,"slug":618,"is_fiction":18},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":193,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":712,"themes":713,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[123,124],[],{"key":715,"params":716,"works":717},"genre",{"genre":33},[718,749,770,782,812,836],{"id":719,"slug":720,"title":721,"description":722,"primary_cover_url":723,"cover_blurhash":724,"first_publish_year":725,"community_rating_avg":726,"community_rating_count":727,"page_count":728,"authors":729,"genres":734,"series":744,"enrichment":745},"01kjr3bm25g7v8rjvsx07zzxsq","the-devil-in-the-white-city-8kme","Devil in the White City","In 1893, Chicago staked its reputation on the World's Columbian Exposition — a fair meant to outshine Paris and announce America's arrival as a global power. Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City tells the story of the men who built it, centered on architect Daniel Burnham, who battled financial setbacks, engineering failures, and the death of his design partner to raise the \"White City\" from a swampy park in barely two years.\n\nRunning alongside that story is a darker one. H. H. Holmes, a charismatic young doctor, built a block-long building near the fairgrounds outfitted with hidden rooms, a gas chamber, and a basement crematorium. Using the anonymity of the fair's crowds — young women drawn to the city for work, tourists passing through — Holmes lured victims into his \"World's Fair Hotel\" and killed an unknown number of them, a case that later shaped how Americans understood the idea of a serial killer.\n\nLarson tells both stories side by side, drawing on letters, court records, and contemporary newspapers to reconstruct the fair's engineering triumphs — the first Ferris wheel, the electric-lit \"White City\" itself — against the quiet horror unfolding a few streets away. It's history written with the momentum of a thriller, without inventing dialogue or events the record doesn't support.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kjz4bjx00dcw0rhx8he9snv7.jpg","L7BpOc~WMy9Z$~j?j[WC004.WB-:",2003,"4.60",5,464,[730],{"id":731,"slug":732,"name":733},"01kjr3bm2ecv24y30jptevz83v","erik-larson-nnxy","Erik Larson",[735,736,737,738,739,740],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":574,"name":575,"slug":576,"is_fiction":19},{"id":153,"name":154,"slug":155,"is_fiction":18},{"id":249,"name":250,"slug":251,"is_fiction":18},{"id":217,"name":218,"slug":219,"is_fiction":18},{"id":741,"name":742,"slug":743,"is_fiction":18},115,"Architecture","architecture",[],{"pace":303,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":746,"themes":747,"setting_period":10,"summary":748,"content_warnings":10},[306,223],[],"Two parallel stories unfold in 1893 Chicago: Daniel Burnham, the visionary architect behind the World's Columbian Exposition, races to build a world-class fair while battling fire, funding shortages, and engineering failures; and H.H. 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Skillfully interweaving the great works--by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall--with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, Figes reveals the spirit of \"Russianness\" as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory--and more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nda55q87hecrrk33vyhyc.jpg?v=f28472d8aa","LmNu.:oeags-~4oKj@od%HoKodWW",788,[758],{"id":759,"slug":760,"name":761},"01kpq3pnn327jn0wmdyx8vx4gy","orlando-figes-zrbo","Orlando Figes",[763,764],{"id":153,"name":154,"slug":155,"is_fiction":18},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":193,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":767,"themes":769,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[768,169],"intellectual",[],{"id":330,"slug":331,"title":332,"description":333,"primary_cover_url":334,"cover_blurhash":335,"first_publish_year":336,"community_rating_avg":205,"community_rating_count":120,"page_count":337,"authors":771,"genres":773,"series":778,"enrichment":779},[772],{"id":340,"slug":341,"name":342},[774,775,776,777],{"id":345,"name":346,"slug":347,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":153,"name":154,"slug":155,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":193,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":780,"themes":781,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[123,195],[355,356],{"id":783,"slug":784,"title":785,"description":786,"primary_cover_url":787,"cover_blurhash":788,"first_publish_year":789,"community_rating_avg":205,"community_rating_count":120,"page_count":790,"authors":791,"genres":800,"series":808,"enrichment":809},"01kx6nsge3ekzh6ggkj314rnmf","the-presidents-aomn","The Presidents","The Presidents collects the complete rankings from C-SPAN's Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership, the long-running poll in which leading presidential historians and biographers rate every U.S. president across categories such as persuasive ability, moral authority, and administrative skill.\n\nBuilt from decades of interviews C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and Susan Swain conducted with presidential biographers, the book profiles each of the 43 men who had served as president at the time of the 2017 survey, ordering them from the highest-ranked (Abraham Lincoln) to the lowest (James Buchanan). Each chapter runs roughly a dozen pages, combining basic biography with the historians' reasoning for a president's placement. Contributors include historians such as Douglas Brinkley and Richard Norton Smith.\n\nDonald Trump is not included in the rankings, since his term was still in progress when the survey and book were completed, though the closing pages touch on how historians were beginning to assess his presidency.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nsgehp0vdqs8t12m2m6hv.jpg?v=d614774246","L15rPwWY4n.T+pjYS*RN00aIbwS6",2019,560,[792,796],{"id":793,"slug":794,"name":795},"01kx6nsgecexnj6fqc8hggkza6","brian-lamb-q5yi","Brian Lamb",{"id":797,"slug":798,"name":799},"01kx6nsged92gvzbsbys0tnt18","susan-swain-auiy","Susan Swain",[801,805,806,807],{"id":802,"name":803,"slug":804,"is_fiction":18},102,"Politics","politics",{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":153,"name":154,"slug":155,"is_fiction":18},{"id":249,"name":250,"slug":251,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":10,"complexity":10,"audience":121,"mood":810,"themes":811,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[168,169],[],{"id":813,"slug":814,"title":815,"description":816,"primary_cover_url":817,"cover_blurhash":818,"first_publish_year":386,"community_rating_avg":819,"community_rating_count":120,"page_count":10,"authors":820,"genres":825,"series":831,"enrichment":832},"01kx2a91wdrsvq8m8cab2zp44t","thoughts-from-walden-pond-by-henry-david-thoreau-rfnd","Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau","This contribution to European historical literature--based on extensive research in Madrid--provides a clear and dispassionate account of successive ecclesiastical-secular conflicts and controversies, and deftly summarizes the diverse ideological and intellectual currents of the times. Nowhere in Europe has the Roman Catholic Church exerted a more mystical hold on the life of a nation than it has in Spain. Yet this hold has not been unchanging or unchallenged. By the mid-eighteenth century the Church was no longer the only legitimate source of authority, the all-pervasive presence that it had been, most forcefully in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Still, its power remained formidable. The Spanish Church imposed standards of conduct over the entire range of society, from the aristocracy to the peasant masses, and it possessed the material resources necessary to maintain an elaborate ecclesiastical network that influenced every aspect of Spanish life. The heart of the book deals with the reactions of the Church to the dramatic, sometimes violent, changes that occurred during the critical nineteenth-century period of national transition from royal absolutism to popular liberalism. 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As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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