Michael O'Brien, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $27 (364p) ISBN 978-0-374-21581-1
Beginning her nearly solitary winter trek from St. Petersburg to Paris in 1815, Louisa Adams experienced 40 days of independence from the constrictions she suffered as wife to future American president John Quincy Adams. Recounting her journey in...
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Michael O'Brien, Author, O'Brien, Author Catholic University of America Press $34.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8132-0921-0
O'Brien, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, has written a detailed but accessible biography of the man who, in more than 30 years as president of Notre Dame, came to embody the university for an American public more...
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Michael O'Brien, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $40 (971p) ISBN 978-0-312-28129-8
Publicity for this book claims that until now there has been "no first-class modern biography that takes advantage of the huge volume of new material released from government archives and the JFK Library": somewhere there is a copywriter who
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Michael O'Brien, Author Rutledge Hill Press $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-1-55853-668-5
Certainly one of the best-known coaches in college football, Paterno became an assistant at Penn State in 1950 and head coach in 1966. And he has stayed there ever since, despite offers from both colleges and professional teams. Through the years he
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