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G. J. Meyer is a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow with an M.A. in English literature from the University of Minnesota, a onetime journalist, and holder of Harvard University’s Neiman Fellowship in Journalism. He has taught at colleges and universities in Des Moines, St. Louis, and New York. His books include A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, Executive Blues, and The Memphis Murders, winner of an Edgar Award for nonfiction from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Goring-on-Thames, England. (source) ...more

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	A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 4.37 avg rating — 8,956 ratings — published 2006 — 28 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 Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty 4.02 avg rating — 9,139 ratings — published 2010 — 23 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 Borgias: The Hidden History 3.80 avg rating — 2,428 ratings — published 2013 — 19 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 Remade: America in World War I 4.20 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2017 — 5 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
	Executive Blues: Down and Out in Corporate America 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1995 — 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 Memphis Murders 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1974	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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“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was a fight to the death with the forces of evil, and the stakes were survival and civilization itself. It is no simple thing to make people believe such things and later persuade them to accept a settlement based on compromise.”
― G.J. Meyer, A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

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“It matters also that both Henry and his daughter Elizabeth were not just rulers but consummate performers, masters of political propaganda and political theater. They”
― G.J. Meyer, The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

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“Added to all this was the emergence of a new set of social values—call it the Protestant ethic—that encouraged the prosperous to equate wealth with virtue and to regard the destitute as responsible for (even predestined to) their predicament.”
― G.J. Meyer, The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

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What books about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for our Group Read in April 2019?

Sovereign by C.J. Sansom

12 votes, 15.6%

Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham

11 votes, 14.3%

Young Bess by Margaret Irwin

6 votes, 7.8%

1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb

6 votes, 7.8%

Uneasy Lies the Head by Jean Plaidy

6 votes, 7.8%

The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd

6 votes, 7.8%

Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

4 votes, 5.2%

Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore

4 votes, 5.2%

With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown by Benton Rain Patterson

3 votes, 3.9%

Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall: The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley by Robert Stedall

3 votes, 3.9%

This Marlowe by Michelle Butler Hallett

3 votes, 3.9%

MARY - Tudor Princess by Tony Riches

3 votes, 3.9%

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer

3 votes, 3.9%

The White Rose Murders by Paul Doherty

3 votes, 3.9%

Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak

2 votes, 2.6%

Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt. Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy by Nicola Shulman

2 votes, 2.6%

Richard Hooker Prophet of Anglicanism by Philip B. Secor

0 votes, 0.0%

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