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Stephen Budiansky

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History, Outdoors & Nature

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Historian and journalist Stephen Budiansky is the author of twelve books about military history, science, and nature.

His latest book is The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox, which chronicles the struggles of five courageous men in the post-Civil War South as they battled a rising tide of terrorist violence aimed at usurping the newly won rights of the freedmen.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 6,972 ratings · 899 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage 3.85 avg rating — 1,326 ratings — published 2005 — 11 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
	Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel 4.06 avg rating — 936 ratings — 16 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
	Code Warriors: NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union 3.73 avg rating — 768 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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
	Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas 4.22 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 2019 — 9 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
	Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare 3.94 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 2013 — 13 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
	Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II 3.99 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2000 — 4 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 Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox 3.86 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2008 — 18 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 Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind 4.06 avg rating — 319 ratings — 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 Character of Cats: The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis Silvestris Catus 3.79 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2002 — 16 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
	Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 2010 — 8 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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“Life is a struggle, and it is the struggle that gives it meaning. The only thing to do was to give one’s all, and leave the consequences to fate.7”
― Stephen Budiansky, Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

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“provisions of the Constitution . . . are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil.50 The most important provisions . . . constitute the original inheritance of the American people, which they brought over with them from England. . . . Constitutions are not made, but they grow by an inherent law of progress and adaptation to changing circumstances.”
― Stephen Budiansky, Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

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“And he plainly disagreed with the reverence for Wittgenstein’s idea that mathematics, like language, was merely a tool, a set of rules or a syntax that had no inherent meaning in itself.”
― Stephen Budiansky, Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky

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The Cardinal by Alison Weir

7 votes, 28.0%

Shades of Yellow by Wendy J. Dunn

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The Light in the Labyrinth: The Last Days of Anne Boleyn. by Wendy J. Dunn

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Henry VII by Sean Cunningham

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The Man on a Donkey: A Chronicle by H.F.M. Prescott

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Essex: Tudor Rebel by Tony Riches

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The Secrets of Saffron Hall by Clare Marchant

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