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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson 2003


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The American "founding father" that winks at you - best new history - this is a wonderful new biography. Isaacson brings this fascinating multi-faceted personality to life to an extent that no author has before.

For more on Benjamin Franklin see These United Colonies: The American War of Independence, a HistoryWiz exhibit

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon S. Wood

 an enlightening book by a well known authority on the American Revolution. An enjoyable book to read.
winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for history

The Days of the French Revolution
by Christopher Hibbert

a well written and very readable narrative account of the major events of French Revolution

A People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution : 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes

a very readable narrative account of the Russian Revolution

Che Guevara: a Revolutionary Life
by Jon Lee Anderson 1998

 
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Che Guevara was a dashing, charismatic figure: the asthmatic son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary