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9781451683226 | Simon & Schuster, June 5, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: With a new Introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II.
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9780684837710 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1997), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, "The Wise Men" introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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9781442346277 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 24, 2011), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
9781442346949 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 24, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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9781410445223 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 4, 2011), cover price $35.99 | About this edition: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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9780307950284 | Italian edition edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: La biografía definitiva de Steve Jobs La muerte de Steve Jobs ha conmocionado al mundo.
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9780393340761 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 17, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: “Though we cannot learn leadership, we can learn from leaders, which is why this volume is so engaging and valuable.
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9781589808744 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, November 1, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This presentation of the neighborhoods of New Orleans offers an expert's perspective on the city's architectural diversity and details, one block at a time.
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9781439180648 | Simon & Schuster, November 24, 2009, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist.
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9781442304079 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, November 24, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: By the author of the bestselling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, a reflection on: What are the roots of creativity?
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9780061893896 | Harper Design Intl, November 3, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius.
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9788499080130 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, September 1, 2009), cover price $16.95
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9780738553153 | Arcadia Pub, November 26, 2008, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: In 1801, on a ridge that overlooked the incipient national capital, Philip Barton Key, uncle and mentor of Francis Scott Key, built a Federal-style house and named it Woodley.
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9788483067888 | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, January 9, 2009), cover price $49.95
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Amazon.com Review: As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best...read more
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9780786295289 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 16, 2007), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
9780743264730 | Simon & Schuster, April 10, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality.
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9780743264747 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, May 13, 2008), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.
9781594132599 | Large print edition (Large Print Pr, May 13, 2008), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.
Miscellaneous:
9780743560979 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 10, 2007), cover price $17.95
9780743561396 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 10, 2007), cover price $29.95
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9780743560962 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 10, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
9780743561389 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 10, 2007), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
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9781439560785 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 8, 2008), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9781402737893 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 28, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presenting pearls of wisdom on wealth from Benjamin Franklin.
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9780671663230 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A biography of the political figure, based on more than 150 interviews with Kissinger and others, chronicles his childhood in Nazi Germany, his rise in politics, his political relationships, and more
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9780743286978 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2005), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Complemented by a new introduction, a biography of the political figure, based on more than 150 interviews with Kissinger and others, chronicles his childhood in Nazi Germany, his rise in politics, his political relationships, and more.
9780684825571 | Touchstone Books, December 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A biography of the political figure, based on more than 150 interviews with Kissinger and others, chronicles his childhood in Nazi Germany, his rise in politics, his political relationships, and more
9780671872366 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1993), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A biography of the political figure, based on more than 150 interviews with Kissinger and others, chronicles his childhood in Nazi Germany, his rise in politics, his political relationships, and more
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Product Description: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GREATEST WRITINGS Edited and Annotated by Walter Isaacson Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin's writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America's favorite founder and wit...read more
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9780743257824 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A companion volume to Benjamin Franklin: An American Life presents a definitive version of Franklin's Autobiography along with a selection of some of his most important writings, including 'The Art of Conversation' and 'Rules for Promoting Matrimonial Happiness,' all accompanied by a helpful introduction, commentary, and notes.
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9780743273985 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2005), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A companion volume to Benjamin Franklin: An American Life presents a definitive version of Franklin's Autobiography, along with a selection of some of his most important writings, including 'The Art of Conversation' and 'Rules for Promoting Matrimonial Happiness,' all accompanied by a helpful introduction, commentary, and notes.
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9780606340373 | Demco Media, June 30, 2005, cover price $24.60 | About this edition: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GREATEST WRITINGS Edited and Annotated by Walter Isaacson Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin's writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America's favorite founder and wit.
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Product Description: Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles...read more
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9780786260034 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller A Book of the Month Club Main Selection A History Book Club Alternate Selection In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father.
9780684807614 | Simon & Schuster, July 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.
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9780743258074 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, May 4, 2004), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.
Miscellaneous:
9780743561853 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, August 1, 2006), cover price $17.95
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9780743533652 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, July 1, 2003), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.
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9780743533645 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, July 1, 2003), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.
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9780606302425 | Demco Media, April 30, 2004, cover price $26.75 | About this edition: Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.
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9781439566985 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us.
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9780671504656 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An intimate portrait of six men
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9780671657123 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, January 1, 1988), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An intimate portrait of six men
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Presents both sides of the arguments concerning controversial topics, such as the draft, gun control, abortion, religious cults, television, and smoking
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9780399128691 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents both sides of the arguments concerning controversial topics, such as the draft, gun control, abortion, religious cults, television, and smoking
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