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American Legends: The Life of Myrna Loy
*Includes pictures*Includes Loy's quotes about her own life and career*Includes contemporary reviews of her movies*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach...
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American Legends: The Life of Nat Turner
In American history, there are few people as controversial or consequential as Nat Turner, who was one of millions of slaves in the South before the Civil War but ultimately led the nation's most notorious slave uprising. In August 1831,...
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American Legends: The Life of Natalie Wood
*Includes pictures.*Includes Wood's quotes about her own life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents."Stardom is only a byproduct of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.” –...
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American Legends: The Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
*Includes pictures of Hawthorne and other important people and places in his life.*Explains how Hawthorne's friends and family influenced his classic works.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."The bubble reputation is as much a bubble in literature...
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American Legends: The Life of Orson Welles
*Includes pictures.*Includes Welles' quotes about his life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading. “I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.” – Orson Welles A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s...
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American Legends: The Life of Otis Redding
"If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it 24 hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from...
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American Legends: The Life of Paul Revere
*Includes Revere's firsthand account of his midnight ride. *Includes Longfellow's famous poem, Paul Revere's Ride. *Includes pictures of Revere and important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. *Includes a Table of Contents. "Out...
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American Legends: The Life of Pocahontas
*Includes pictures of historic art depicting Pocahontas and important people and places in her life. *Discusses John Smith's accounts of Pocahontas, the Mattaponi Native Americans' oral histories of Pocahontas, and the sharp differences between them. *Analyzes the legends surrounding Pocahontas...
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American Legends: The Life of P.T. Barnum
*Includes pictures. *Includes Barnum's own quotes about his life and career. *Highlights Barnum's entertainment career and transition into the circus. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. *Includes a table of contents. "I was a farmhand, a merchant, a clerk, a...
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American Legends: The Life of Red Skelton
*Includes pictures*Includes Skelton's quotes about his life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the best. I just want to be...
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American Legends: The Life of Richard Nixon
*Includes pictures.*Includes Nixon's most famous quotes.*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents."I leave you gentleman now. You will now write it; you will interpret it; that's your right. But as I leave you I want...
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American Legends: The Life of Robert F. Kennedy
*Includes pictures of Bobby and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for...
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American Legends: The Life of Robert Mitchum
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading “I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way...
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American Legends: The Life of Robert Redford
*Includes pictures*Includes Redford's own quotes about his life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned...
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American Legends: The Life of Rock Hudson
"I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself." (Rock Hudson) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures,...
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American Legends: The Life of Rod Serling
*Includes pictures *Includes Serling's own quotes about his life and career *Includes footnotes, a bibliography, and online resources for further reading *Includes a table of contents “There’s nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.” –...
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American Legends: The Life of Sam Cooke
"I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand." (Sam Cooke) A lot of ink...
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American Legends: The Life of Sharon Tate
*Includes pictures*Includes Tate's own quotes about her life and career*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would...
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American Legends: The Life of Sidney Poitier
*Includes pictures*Includes Poitier's quotes about his own life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.”...
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American Legends: The Life of Solomon Northup
*Includes excerpts from Twelve Years a Slave about Northup's life and experiences.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.“Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and...
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