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Michael Farquhar
Michael Farquhar, a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the critically acclaimed Behind the Palace Doors and Secret Lives of the Tsars, as well as the popular Penguin "Treasury" series: A Treasury of Royal Scandals, A Treasury of... show more

Michael Farquhar, a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the critically acclaimed Behind the Palace Doors and Secret Lives of the Tsars, as well as the popular Penguin "Treasury" series: A Treasury of Royal Scandals, A Treasury of Great American Scandals, A Treasury of Deception, A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans, and his latest title, Bad Days in History. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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History
Michael Farquhar's Books
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors - Michael Farquhar Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain - Michael Farquhar A Treasury of Great American Scandals - Michael Farquhar A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's - Michael Farquhar Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia - Michael Farquhar Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year - Michael Farquhar The Century: History as It Happened on the Front Page of the Capital's Newspaper - Michael Farquhar, Mary Hadar A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History - Michael Farquhar A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune... A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year Bad Days in History (Hardback) - Common - Michael Farquhar
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Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain - Michael Farquhar, James Langton
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year - Michael Farquhar
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia - Enn Reitel, Michael Farquhar
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year - Michael Farquhar
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia - Michael Farquhar
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia - Michael Farquhar
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain - Michael Farquhar
A Treasury of Great American Scandals - Michael Farquhar
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's - Michael Farquhar
A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing - Michael Farquhar
Michael Farquhar's readers
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Degrees of Affection
Degrees of Affection rated it 9 years ago
text Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain
I've long had my eye on Farquhar's books but his recent Secret Lives of the Tsars was the first I actually read. It really impressed me, more than I'd thought it would, so when I saw this on Hoopla, I had to give it a try because...well Tudors and Hapsburgs = extremely interesting. Perhaps it's t...
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Mystereity
Mystereity rated it 10 years ago
text Bad Days In History
Fun and interesting, but it felt like it took a year to read it. Perhaps getting it out of the library wasn't a great idea. Not a book to read on a time constraint. But enjoyable.
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Degrees of Affection
Degrees of Affection rated it 10 years ago
text Secret Lives of the Tsars
Though I've been working my way through this slowly, don't think it was because I found it boring. Quite the reverse, actually. Regrettably, I know little Russian history, so I learned vast amounts from this book. Interesting enough, there was a surprising amount of overlap between this and A Royal ...
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Jolene
Jolene rated it 11 years ago
text Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar
**Thank you to Random House and Netgalley for providing this in exchange for an honest review**This was a great introduction to the Romanov dynasty. I'm a little embarrassed to admit the only people I already really knew anything about was Catherine the Great and Anastasia. This was a great book to ...
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 11 years ago
text Mel Brooks' History of the Tsars
Disclaimer: ARC read via Netgalley in exchange for a fair review. Perhaps it is unfair to read this book after reading Elephant Company, which was the type of book that made me want to go find everything else by the author. This isn’t the first Farquhar book I’ve read, and last y...
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