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|author=James Evans
|title=Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=We tend to associate the golden age of global navigation and exploration with the Elizabethan age and such luminaries as Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins. This book does us all a service in reminding us of the original pioneers, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these days.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Marriott
|summary=It's only a matter of days since I finished listening to [[The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A Caro|The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power]], the first part of Robert A Caro's definitive work on the President and despite having just spent over forty hours on the book I wanted to learn more. I was torn though - the second book in a series is not often as good as the first and it struck me that these might not be the most exciting years in Johnson's life. Was this book going to be the link which took us on to the more exciting times? Not a bit of it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GSHD0U6</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert A Caro
|title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, preceded by John F Kennedy and succeeded by Richard Nixon, with both being remembered most for the way they left office. His five-year term in office was overshadowed at the start by the Kennedy assassination and increasingly blighted by the debacle which was Vietnam, but there was something about Johnson which always intrigued me: how does a poor boy from Texas hill country without an exceptional (or even 'good') education become president of the United States? 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power' tells you all that you need to know.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GSHTJZQ</amazonuk>
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