Books like The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
12 books with a reading profile close to The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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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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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
David McCullough recounts the 1788 settlement of Marietta, Ohio, following a group of New Englanders led by Manasseh Cutler and Rufus Putnam into the Northwest Territory.
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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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WE THE WOMEN
by Norah O'Donnell with Kate Andersen Brower
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Norah O'Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower present a historical survey of women who influenced the political, social, and legal landscape of the United States.
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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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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Anderson Cooper traces the trajectory of his maternal family from Cornelius Vanderbilt’s nineteenth-century steamship and railroad empire to the eventual depletion of the massive fortune.
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Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
by Sean Patrick
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, biography
Sean Patrick examines the intellectual habits and creative processes of Nikola Tesla, focusing on how he harnessed mental visualization to engineer the alternating current motor and wireless communication.
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George Cukor
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Patrick McGilligan chronicles the life and career of George Cukor, focusing on his survival as a gay man within the rigid Hollywood studio system.
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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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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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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Sonia Purnell chronicles the life of Virginia Hall, an American woman who overcame a prosthetic wooden leg and deep-seated institutional sexism to become a critical operative for the British Special Operations Executive…
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