Frank McLynn, Author . Da Capo $26 (684p) ISBN 978-0-306-81830-1
Pat Buchanan once said that George W. Bush was no Marcus Aurelius, while Bill Clinton claimed that he read and reread Aurelius' Meditations
as president. McLynn, author of biographies of figures from Napoleon to Jung, argues that the emperor...
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Frank McLynn. Yale Univ., $35 (557p) ISBN 978-0300-11421-8
The man who searched the Pacific Ocean for the Great Southern Continent was much more than a circumnavigator and an explorer. A polymath and all-round specialist on both coastal and deep-water sailing, his selection by the Royal Society and the...
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Frank McLynn. Yale Univ., $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-300-17162-4
To honor the one million Burmese who perished in WWII, historian McLynn (Captain Cook) offers a meticulously researched account of the struggle between Japan and the Allied forces in Burma, the present-day Myanmar. Opening with a description of the...
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F. J. McLynn, Author, Frank McLynn, Author John Murray Publishers $34.95 (428p) ISBN 978-0-7195-4818-5
Award-winning British historian ( Jacobite Army in England ) McLynn surpasses himself with this thoroughly engrossing life of the Victorian explorer. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) emerges as a man riddled with inconsistencies. He was a...
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F. J. McLynn, Author, Frank McLynn, Author Random House (NY) $30 (567p) ISBN 978-0-679-41284-7
This massive biography is propelled by the conviction that Stevenson (1850-1894) was not merely a writer of adventure yarns for boys but Scotland's greatest writer and a major influence on Conrad, Wilde and even Yeats. In lucid, erudite prose,...
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F. J. McLynn, Author, Frank McLynn, Author Little Brown and Company $29.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-312-15491-2
McLynn (Robert Louis Stevenson) declares at the outset that this is not a definitive biography, which ""will not be possible until all the relevant documentation is released into the public domain."" He characterizes his subject as arrogant, selfish
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Frank McLynn, Author . Carroll & Graf $28 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0895-6
The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 and lasted for over a decade, a bloody and confusing saga of betrayal, corruption, misshapen politics and mislaid trusts that, in the end, accomplished little for lower- and lower-middle class Mexicans. Historian
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Frank McLynn, Author . Arcade $32.95 (739p) ISBN 978-1-55970-631-5
After visiting Corsica, Rousseau declared, "I have a presentiment that one day this small island will astonish Europe." Corsica did. Born there in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte would convulse the Continent, precipitating thousands of books about...
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Frank McLynn, Author . Grove $35 (509p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1731-1
Rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans' trek to the Pacific. A prolific British writer taken by the complex aspirations and often desperate hardships of the saints and scoundrels who filled the Western...
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Frank McLynn, Author . Atlantic Monthly $27.50 (1759p) ISBN 978-0-87113-881-1
"The entire history of the world would have been different but for the events of 1759," McLynn (Wagons West
; Napoleon
; etc.) argues in his stylish account of a year crowded with scheming, battles and British conquest. That year was the...
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Frank McLynn, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-88184-926-4
McLynn ( France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745 ) takes an intriguing tack by offering a thematic, comparative account of African exploration during the Victorian era. In sturdy, confident prose, he first sketches the paths of several explorers--Henr
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Frank McLynn, Author Basic Books $14.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0084-4
An account of African exploration during the Victorian era and such major explorers as Stanley and Livingstone. Illustrations. (June)
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Frank McLynn. Da Capo, $32.50 (688p) ISBN 978-0-306-82395-4
Prolific British historian and biographer McLynn (Captain Cook) seeks to determine how a seemingly insignificant nomadic tribe from the remote, arid, sub-Arctic steppe became world conquerors. He relies heavily on The Secret History of the Mongols,...
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