History
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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American Legends: The Life of Spencer Tracy
"Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture." (Spencer Tracy) 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...
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American Legends: The Life of Stephen Douglas
Explains the central issues of the 1850s, including the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision. "Now, I hold that Illinois had a right to abolish and prohibit slavery as she did, and I hold...
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American Legends: The Life of Steve McQueen
*Includes pictures.*Includes McQueen's quotes about his own life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I live for myself and I answer to nobody." – Steve McQueen A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most...
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American Legends: The Life of Stevie Wonder
*Includes pictures*Includes Stevie Wonder's quotes about his own life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.” – Stevie WonderA lot of ink...
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