Amanda Foreman

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in London, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1968

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female

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http://www.amanda-foreman.com/

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History, Biographies & Memoirs

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Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-winning best seller, "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire", and A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided. She lives in New York with her husband and five children.

She is the daughter of Carl Foreman, the Oscar-winning screen writer of many film classics including, The Bridge on the River Kwai, High Noon, and The Guns of Navarone.

She was born in London, brought up in Los Angeles, and educated in England. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York. She received her doctorate in Eighteenth-Century British History from Oxford University in 1998.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was a number one best seller in England, and best seller for many weeks in the United St...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 8,319 ratings · 940 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors

	Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 7,300 ratings — published 1998 — 26 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Georgiana's World 4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Duchess by Amanda Foreman, Wanda McCaddon (Translation) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford, Amanda Foreman (Introduction) 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 1954 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waterloo: June 18, 1815: The Battle For Modern Europe by Andrew Roberts, Lisa Jardine (Editor), Amanda Foreman (Editor) 3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King by Christopher Hibbert, Amanda Foreman (Foreword) 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from Twelve Leading Historians by Andrew Roberts (Editor), Conrad Black, Norman Stone 2.9 of 5 stars 2.90 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells, Amanda Foreman, Flora Fraser 3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1909 — 54 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Grief by Lolly Winston, Amanda Foreman 3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 14,487 ratings — published 2004 — 38 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early”
― Amanda Foreman, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

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16 people liked it

“His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.”
― Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

tags: countenance, expression

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