Emminent Lives: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant

Year 2005

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Emminent Lives: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant by Paul Johnson ; Christopher Hitchens is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 2005 • Harpercollins.

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