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  • Rachel Donelson Jackson
    Betty Boles Ellison
    Rachel Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, never wanted to be First Lady and tried to dissuade her husband from his political ambitions. Yet she publicly supported his political advancement and was the first wife of a presidential candidate to take to the campaign trail. Privy to his political decisions, she offered valued counsel, and Jackson sometimes regretted not ...
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    57,19 €

  • The Early Laps of Stock Car Racing
    Betty Boles Ellison
    The first organized, sanctioned American stock car race took place in 1908 on a road course around Briarcliff, New York--staged by one of America’s early speed mavens, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. A veteran of the early Ormond-Daytona Beach speed trials, Vanderbilt brought the Grand Prize races to Savannah, Georgia, the same year. What began as a rich man’s sport eventually be...
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    58,78 €

  • The True Mary Todd Lincoln
    Betty Boles Ellison
    This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s wife. Preconceived myths about the former first lady are factually disproved. At times her judgment was faulty; in other instances it was brilliant. After her 1861 refurbishing of the Executive Mansion, she made no further furnishings purchases, only replacement items. Th...
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    58,80 €

  • A Man Seen But Once
    Betty Boles Ellison
    'Clay’s mission to St. Petersburg, when all the world was our foe, will always remain one of the most spectacular passages in Russian American Friendship.' Joseph Freeman, Life Magazine, August 27, 1945. 'This man (Clay) is certainly the most wonderful ass of the age. . . It is prosperity that has developed the fearful underlying vanity that poisons his whole character.' Willia...
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    20,39 €

  • Illegal Odyssey
    Betty Boles Ellison
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    20,52 €

  • Kentucky’s Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption
    Betty Boles Ellison
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    16,78 €