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Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington...
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c2002
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Joyce Lohse has written a book impressive for its detailed knowlege of many important events in Colorado History. Included are numerous fascinating maps, documents, and pictures, which she has unearthed in years of exhaustive research. Interesting to anyone who wants to learn more about early Colorado, this book chronicles a formative period which should never be forgotten.
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[2003]
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The wife of the late governor of Texas, John Connally, offers her own eyewitness version of the Kennedy assassination, sharing her personal diary of the events that unfolded both before and following November 22, 1963, disputing the Warren Commission's findings, and providing an intensely personal perspective on the nation's tragedy.
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[2008]
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The former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL presents an assessment of what he believes to be America's political shortcomings, in a whimsical account that chronicles his controversial gubernatorial years, his morally charged visit to Cuba, and his consideration for an independent run for president.