Emminent Lives: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant
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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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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780060844769
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780060844769
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