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American Legends: The Life of Charlton Heston
*Includes pictures. *Includes Heston's own quotes about his life, his career, and politics. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. “[Fame] has complicated my life a little, but not enormously. I had to learn to be a public person, but fame...
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American Legends: The Life of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
*Includes pictures of Chief Joseph and other important people and places in his life.*Explains the events that led up to the Nez Perce War and comprehensively covers the tribe's legendary retreat*Discusses Chief Joseph's legacy and controversies surrounding his life.*Includes a...
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American Legends: The Life of Chuck Berry
*Includes pictures *Includes Berry's quotes about his life and career *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an...
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American Legends: The Life of Clark Gable
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes Gable's quotes about his own life and working with other Hollywood stars. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. “The only reason they come to see me is that I know that...
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American Legends: The Life of Clint Eastwood
*Includes pictures.*Includes some of Eastwood's most colorful quotes.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading."The roles that Eastwood has played, and the films that he has directed, cannot be disentangled from the nature of the American culture of the last quarter century,...
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American Legends: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
*Includes pictures *Includes Vanderbilt's quotes about his own life and work *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my...
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American Legends: The Life of Crazy Horse
*Includes pictures of important people and places in Crazy Horse's life. *Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of Crazy Horse's name. "Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again...
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American Legends: The Life of Daniel Boone
*Includes portraits of Boone and illustrations depicting other important people and places in his life. *Analyzes some of the legends about Daniel Boone's life in an effort to separate fact from fiction. *Explains how Daniel Boone's legacy was shaped and...
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American Legends: The Life of Davy Crockett
The Wild West and the frontier have long held a special place in the narrative of American history, and of all the legends and folk heroes who lived in the 19th century, none became as famous as Davy Crockett, "The...
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American Legends: The Life of Dean Martin
"If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let 'em. That's how I got here, you know." (Dean Martin) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but...
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American Legends: The Life of Dick Van Dyke
If television was still coming into its own during the 1950s, it truly became a national phenomenon across America in the 1960s, and in an era where most Americans finally owned a television, one of the most popular shows on...
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American Legends: The Life of Dolly Parton
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed...
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American Legends: The Life of Doris Day
"I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls - you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, 'No matter what happens,...
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American Legends: The Life of Dred Scott and the Dred Scott Decision
*Includes the full text of the Dred Scott decision and every opinion written by the Supreme Court justices.*Analyzes the Dred Scott decision and its impact on future civil rights cases.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes a Table of...
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American Legends: The Life of Duke Ellington
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." "Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: When it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it." (Duke Ellington) A lot of ink has been...
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American Legends: The Life of Dwight D. Eisenhower
*Includes pictures of Eisenhower and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a detailed analysis of Eisenhower's military planning for D-Day and the invasion itself.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of...
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American Legends: The Life of Ed Sullivan
*Includes pictures.*Includes in depth accounts of Elvis Presley and The Beatles' historic performances on The Ed Sullivan Show.*Includes Sullivan's quotes about his life and his famous show.*Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Open big, have a good comedy act, put...
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American Legends: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
*Includes pictures of Poe and important people and places in his life.*Discusses the inspiration for Poe's most famous works.*Explains Poe's relationships with the various women in his life.*Discusses the mysterious circumstances of his death and possible explanations.*Includes a Bibliography for...
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American Legends: The Life of Eliot Ness
*Chronicles Al Capone's rise in Chicago and the efforts of Eliot Ness and the Untouchables to bring him down.*Includes pictures of Ness and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."Unquestionably,...
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American Legends: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
*Includes pictures of Stanton and important people in her life.*Includes Stanton's most colorful quotes on religion, abolition, and women's rights.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate...
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