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      Cover image for Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba
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      Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba

      Tom Chaffin

      Between 1848 and 1851, Lopez tried five times to dislodge Cuba’s Spanish government. This text recounts Lopez’s daring invasions of Cuba and reveals how he was assisted by New York…

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      Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage That Changed the World

      Tom Chaffin

      An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin’s formative years and his adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important…

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      Giant’s Causeway: Frederick Douglass’s Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary

      Tom Chaffin

      In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. In the first major…

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      Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

      Tom Chaffin

      Now in paperback, in a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.

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      Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire

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      The career of John Charles Fremont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins to its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin’s biography demonstrates…

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