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John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever been more devoted to doing the right thing, or more contemptuous of doing the merely popular thing. Yet his Yankee-bred fixation with ethical propriety and fiscal conservatism never stood in the way of his doing what was necessary. Adams hated debt, but as minister to the Netherlands during the Revolution, he was America's premier junk-bond salesman. And though raised a traditional Massachusetts Congregationalist, Adams was instrumental in bringing about the consecration of the first American Episcopal bishops. He was a warm and magnanimous friend and, on occasion, a man who fully vindicated the famous judgment of a rival he detested. Adams, said Benjamin Franklin, "means well for his country, is always an honest man, often a wise one, but, sometimes, and in some things, is absolutely out of his senses."

James Grant examines this complex and often contradictory founding father in the most well-rounded and multi-faceted portrait of Adams to date. Going from his beginnings on a hardscrabble Massachusetts farm to the Continental Congress to the Court of St. James and the White House, Grant traces the words and deeds of one of our most learned but politically star-crossed leaders.</b>]]> 19272 3.92 772 203 2005 924916 0374524017 9780374524012 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179505605m/924916.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179505605s/924916.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/924916.Money_of_the_Mind_Borrowing_and_Lending_in_America_from_the_Civil_War_to_Michael_Milken 4.56 9 19272 3.92 772 203 1992 5218283 1604190086 9781604190083 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5218283.Mr_Market_Miscalculates_The_Bubble_Years_and_Beyond 4.11 9 19272 3.92 772 203 2008 2506038 0374166013 9780374166014 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2506038.Minding_Mr_Market_Ten_Years_on_Wall_Street_With_Grant_s_Interest_Rate_Observer 4.83 6 19272 3.92 772 203 1993 1350870 0812924398 9780812924398 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223627919m/1350870.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223627919s/1350870.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1350870.The_Trouble_With_Prosperity_The_Loss_of_Fear_the_Rise_of_Speculation_and_the_Risk_to_American_Savings 3.17 6 Grant's Interest Rate Observer, Grant is a born contrarian, directing investors into commodities markets, which have been flat for 15 years, and away from the booming stock market. You can disagree with his prognosis, but it's hard to argue with his diagnosis. The boom of the 1990s can't last forever.]]> 19272 3.92 772 203 1996 316731 1558689745 9781558689749 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173714834m/316731.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173714834s/316731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316731.Culture_Shock_Scotland 3.50 2 19272 3.92 772 203 2007 1088450 0471170755 9780471170754 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223631705m/1088450.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223631705s/1088450.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1088450.Bernard_M_Baruch_The_Adventures_of_a_Wall_Street_Legend 4.00 1 Bernard Baruch: The Adventures Of A Wall Street Legend tells the inspiring story of an extraordinary financier who made his first million at the turn of the century and was eventually asked to share his knowledge with every U.S. president from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy.]]> 19272 3.92 772 203 1983 7287072 0600376192 9780600376194 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7287072-rose-medallion 3.00 1
Working on a motorway site, Stanley uncovers a skeleton, so the local police are called in. Then the New York police arrive and the plot thickens. Clearly it's no ordinary skeleton.

When Harry's cottage is mysteriously searched he finds himself involved in a totally different kind of investigation. Why is he suddenly hired by the beautiful mistress of an American gangster? Where is the missing Capelli fortune? Why are people being murdered?

And what has the Rose Medallion to do with all of this?]]> 19272 3.92 772 203 1977 1878731 185607398X 9781856073981 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189645943m/1878731.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189645943s/1878731.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1878731.One_Hundred_Years_With_the_Clonard_Redemptorists 3.00 1 19272 3.92 772 203 2003 7177875 052165940X 9780521659406 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7177875-mathsworks-for-nsw-book-1 0.0 0 19272 3.92 772 203 63402 3.00 1 0 106836 3.83 6 2 820895 0.0 0 0 530935 0.0 0 0 172829 2.95 329 91 2000