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Amanda Foreman

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1968

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

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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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	Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire 3.78 avg rating — 20,218 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,283 ratings — published 2010 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Queen Victoria's Buckingham Palace by Amanda Foreman, Lucy Peter 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The World Made by Women: A New History of Humanity liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Amazon Women: Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Our American Cousins: The British Volunteers in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Duchess 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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	The Duchess by Amanda Foreman (2009-06-15) by Amanda Foreman, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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

tags: georgiana-spencer

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“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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“If everyone followed through on their resolutions, the conseqences for humanity would be dire: The fast food industry would collapse, the gyms would become unbearably crowded, and lifestyle magazines would have nothing left to say.”
― Amanda Foreman

tags: food-for-thought, humor

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What would you like to read for the March 2012 Book of the Month?

11/22/63/Stephen King

9 votes, 52.9%

Spare Change/Bette Lee Crosby

4 votes, 23.5%

Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire/Amanda Foreman

3 votes, 17.6%

Skippy Dies/Paul Murray

1 vote, 5.9%

17 total votes

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