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by Helen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Celebrate The Power Of John Derek. This book is your ultimate resource for John Derek. Here you will find the most up-to-date 112 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about John Derek's Early...
The Lipton Story
A Centennial Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In this rich and engrossing biography of Thomas Lipton, Alec Waugh has recreated the fascinating and complex figure of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime, a millionaire before he was forty, an unofficial ambassador at large, and an unforgettable sportsman to millions of people.
The son...
Harold, the People’s Mayor
The Biography of Harold Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
“Harold Washington was one of the most spellbinding and irresistible characters I have encountered in my 40 years in journalism and politics. Part philosopher, part street brawler and always entertaining, Harold was as big and ebullient as the town he came to lead.” —David Axelrod, former senior...
Samuel Bell Maxey
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Samuel Bell Maxey was an important political figure in nineteenth-century Texas, but no previous book-length study of his life and career has been published. Louise Horton has utilized his private papers as well as numerous other sources in preparing this biography, which includes many of Maxey's own...
by Deborah Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
A really wonderful Jesse Owens book! This book is your ultimate resource for Jesse Owens. Here you will find the most up-to-date 118 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jesse Owens's...
A Modern Plutarch
Comparisons of the Most Influential Modern Statesmen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
One of the most significant and enduring texts to have survived from Ancient Greece is Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, written by Plutarch in the first century AD. In the work, the man known as the “Father of Biography? paired off the most notable and influential figures of the classical world,...
by Denise Johns
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Experience Fred Allen in a whole new way. This book is your ultimate resource for Fred Allen. Here you will find the most up-to-date 173 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Fred Allen's...
A Cumbrian Lad
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A Cumbrian Lad is Barry Coulton’s fascinating biography, in which he takes readers on a journey from a small West Cumberland village to the Black Pearl pirate ship in the heart of the Caribbean. Telling the story of his exciting, action-packed life, Barry begins by describing his craft apprenticeship...
Politician Extraordinaire
The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The biography of a colorful and controversial 20th-century politician
This carefully researched and engagingly written political biography marks the first full treatment of Ohio native and politician Martin L. Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the...
Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979
A Historian's Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who...
by Marilyn Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Feel The Power Of Laetitia Casta. This book is your ultimate resource for Laetitia Casta. Here you will find the most up-to-date 50 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Laetitia Casta's...
by James L. Dickerson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Winner of the Academy Award in 2001 for his performance in Gladiator and the Golden Globe in 2002 for his starring role in A Beautiful Mind, Russell Crowe is the hottest actor in movies today.
This biography traces his career from rock 'n' roller (he still sings and plays guitar with his band, Thirty...
A Life Well Built
The Authorized Biography of Brigadier General Richard (Dick) E. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
From the tapestry of human history and experience, some individuals rise above the fabrics common braid and seem destined for great achievements. Richard Fisher was one of these souls. In A Life Well Built, author Lee Kelley tells the story of this natural-born leader who was an extraordinary soldier,...
Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton
Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first modern biography of this notable politician
“Mach’s detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressive piece of scholarship and will surely be the standard for decades to come.”
—H. Roger Grant, Department of History,...