Juan Domingo Peron: The Wild Paradox of Argentina's Most Loved and Most Hated Leader
Juan Domingo Peron was a military officer who became Argentina's most popular and most divisive president, a man claimed simultaneously by the far left and the far right, a leader who championed worke...
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Thomas Jefferson: The Soldier-Statesman Who Doubled America's Size With a Single Purchase
Thomas Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris to buy New Orleans and got half a continent instead. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 doubled the size of the United States overnight, and Jefferson authorize...
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Queen Victoria: The Secret Passions and Iron Will Behind the British Empire's Longest-Reigning Monarch
Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire for sixty-three years and gave her name to an entire era of supposed moral restraint. But the real Victoria was a woman of volcanic emotions — passionately in l...
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Ruthless Architect Who Turned a Swamp Into Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew took a mosquito-infested island with no natural resources, no hinterland, and no military and turned it into one of the wealthiest nations on earth within a single generation. He did it t...
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Samuel Adams: The Radical Agitator Behind the Revolution That History Turned Into a Beer Label
Samuel Adams was the most radical of the Founding Fathers — a professional agitator who organized the Sons of Liberty, orchestrated the Boston Tea Party, and spent two decades pushing Massachusetts to...
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Ho Chi Minh: The Real Man Behind Uncle Ho and Vietnam's Struggle for Independence
Ho Chi Minh modeled Vietnam's declaration of independence on America's — quoting Jefferson directly — and spent decades trying to convince Washington that Vietnamese nationalism was compatible with Am...
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Aaron Burr: The Brilliant Schemer Behind the Most Famous Duel in American History
Aaron Burr was Thomas Jefferson's vice president, Alexander Hamilton's killer, and the defendant in the most sensational treason trial in the young republic's history. He was brilliant, charming, and ...
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Dwight Eisenhower: The Paradoxical General-President Who Warned America About the Military
Dwight Eisenhower commanded the largest military operation in history on D-Day, then spent his presidency trying to restrain the very military establishment he had led. The general who won World War I...
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