Mike Mitchell
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Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
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1972
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Tumult
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2014
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The Radio Family
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2011
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Deadly Contract
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2011
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Deadly Intrigue
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2013
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Deadly Contract and Deadly Intrigue (Two-book edition)
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2014
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Reunion for Murder
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The life and death of Robert Maxwell. A lot of detail about the final years, when his publishing empire was collapsing (New York Daily News, UK Daily Mirror, etc.). Had little idea about much of this going on in the background, even though I was work ...more | |
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I was disappointed that Hooke’s life had successes but he never seemed to really enjoy it, and was always bitter towards rivals like Newton. He worked a lot with Christopher Wren on London post-1666-fire, but as with his sciences and Newton etc., his ...more | |
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Enjoyed his mix of country matters, and his riding escapades, with his diatribes against parliament in the 1820s, regarding the ruination of rural workers and farmers. He has no time for universities: "those dens of dunces called Colleges and Univers ...more | |

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
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