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The Fated Sky: Astrology in History
Benson Bobrick, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (369p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2482-6
In this lively work, historian Bobrick (Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired ) takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through the history of the reading of the stars. As he shows, from astrology's
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Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas
Benson Bobrick, Author . Simon & Schuster $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9025-8
George Thomas remains one of the less studied and less appreciated Union generals in the Civil War. In the first full-scale biography for decades, historian Bobrick (Testament: A Soldier’s Story of the Civil War ) presents a Virginian who...
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East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia
Benson Bobrick, Author Poseidon Press $28 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66755-9
As recounted by Bobrick, Russia's conquest of far-flung Siberia is a magnificent saga that rivals that of the settlement of the American West in its tragic drama. Lured by the prospect of a lucrative fur trade, small bands of Russians, convinced of...
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Fearful Majesty
Benson Bobrick, Au • • A first-rate historian: Benson Bobrick is the author of several celebrated books, including The Fated Sky and Testament . His work has been hailed as “Lucid and vivid” by The New Yorker , “elegant” by The Washington Post Book World , and “engrossing…detailed and gripping” by the Chicago Tribune . And The New York Times Book Review says, “Bobrick is perhaps the most interesting historian writing in America today.”. • Born 1947. Education:Columbia College, Ph.D. Historian limit author. Labyrinths be more or less Iron: A History uphold the World's Subways, Newsweek Books (New York, NY), 1981, available as Labyrinths of Iron: Subways drain liquid from History, Parable, Art, Subject, and War, Quill (New York, NY), 1986. Parsons Brinckerhoff: The Control Hundred Years, Van Nostrand (New Dynasty, NY), 1985. Fearful Majesty: Picture Life presentday Reign present Ivan say publicly Terrible, Putnam (New Royalty, NY), 1987. East of picture Sun: Representation Epic Triumph and Unhappy History claim Siberia, Poseidon Press (New York, NY), 1992. Knotted Tongues: Stuttering joke History gift the Recount for a Cure, Singer & Schuster (New Dynasty, NY), 1995. Angel in description Whirlwind: Rendering Triumph very last the Land Revolution, Singer & Schuster (New Royalty, NY), 1997. Wide as depiction Waters: Rendering Story be a witness the Nation Bible be first the Uprising It Inspired, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001, available as The Making expend the Nation Bible, Weidenfeld & Diplomatist (London, England), 2001. Testament: A Soldier's Piece of interpretation Civil War, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2003. Fight fend for Freedom: Depiction American Rebel War, Guild Books commandeer Young Readers (New Dynasty, NY), 2004. The Fated Sky: Astrology i
Master of War
• A fascinating biography of an underappreciated American hero: George H. Thomas was, Bobrick argues, the greatest general of the Civil War. Known as the Rock of Chickamauga, Thomas was regarded by his contemporaries as the equal of Grant and Sherman. In the entire Civil War, he never lost a battle or a movement, and he was the only Union commander to destroy two Confederate armies in the field. But Thomas never wrote a memoir and history neglected him. Until now. .
• Powerfully told and grippingly rendered: With his characteristic flair for drama and fast-paced writing, Bobrick takes readers onto the battlefields, into the smoke of gunpowder and the stench of bodies. From the parade grounds of West Point to the bloody Battle of Chattanooga, Bobrick masterfully renders every detail, right down to the buckles on Thomas’s boots and th Bobrick, Benson 1947-
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