Books like Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
12 books with a reading profile close to Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty by Robert K. Massie. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Jon Meacham focuses on the two terms of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, centering the narrative on the White House as a site of both political and domestic struggle.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Alison Weir’s historical account reconstructs the lives of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Walter Isaacson chronicles the life of the most versatile Founding Father, tracing his evolution from a runaway apprentice in Boston to a world-renowned scientist and diplomat.
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The princes in the tower
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Stephen E.
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Mornings on Horseback
Also clear-cut · history, biography
David McCullough chronicles the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, focusing on the two decades between 1869 and 1886.
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
history, biography
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to interview Oluale Kossola, known as Cudjo Lewis.
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Sally Bedell Smith outlines the public and private trajectory of Elizabeth II, from her unexpected transition to heir presumptive to her Diamond Jubilee.
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Roots
by Alex Haley
history, biography
Alex Haley reconstructs his family lineage starting with Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka youth abducted from West Africa in 1767 and sold into chattel slavery in Maryland.
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