Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
American Legends: The Life of Josephine Baker
*Includes pictures *Includes Josephine Baker's quotes about her life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of...
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American Legends: The Life of J.P. Morgan
*Includes pictures*Includes some of Morgan's quotes*Includes a bibliography for further reading “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.” – J.P. Morgan A lot of ink has been spilled covering the...
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American Legends: The Life of Kim Novak
*Includes pictures.*Includes Novak's own quotes about her life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.“My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of...
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American Legends: The Life of Kirk Douglas
*Includes pictures.*Includes Douglas' quotes about his own life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading. “When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.” – Kirk Douglas A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives...
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American Legends: The Life of Kitty Carlisle
*Includes pictures*Includes Kitty's own quotes about her life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent at the same time.” –...
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American Legends: The Life of Lana Turner
*Includes pictures.*Includes Turner's quotes about her own life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents."My life has been a series of emergencies.” – Lana TurnerA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s...
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American Legends: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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 Louis Armstrong
*Includes pictures*Includes Armstrong's quotes*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.” – Louis ArmstrongA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures,...
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American Legends: The Life of Lucille Ball
Includes Lucille Ball's own quotes about her life and career. Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of...
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American Legends: The Life of Mae West
*Includes pictures.*Includes Mae's most famous, clever and controversial quotes.*Includes quotes from Mae's autobiography about her life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.“Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.“ – Mae WestA lot...
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American Legends: The Life of Mama Cass Elliot
"If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless." - Mama Cass A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives...
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American Legends: The Life of Marilyn Monroe
*Includes pictures of Marilyn and important people and scenes.*Includes quotes about her life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.“The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find...
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American Legends: The Life of Marvin Gaye
*Includes pictures*Includes Gaye's quotes about his life and career*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Great artists suffer for the people.” – Marvin GayeA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most...
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American Legends: The Life of Mary Tyler Moore
*Includes pictures*Includes Moore's own quotes about her life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “My grandfather once said, having watched me one entire afternoon, prancing and leaping and cavorting, ‘this child will either end up on stage or in...
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American Legends: The Life of Mel Brooks
*Includes pictures*Includes Brooks' quotes about his life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.” – Mel Brooks A lot of ink has been spilled covering...
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American Legends: The Life of Meryl Streep
*Includes pictures.*Includes Streep's own quotes about her life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents."Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” –...
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American Legends: The Life of Michael Jackson
*Includes pictures*Includes Jackson's own quotes about his life and career*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“The minute I started breaking the all-time record in record sales—I broke Elvis's records, I broke Beatles records—the minute it...
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American Legends: The Life of Mickey Rooney
*Includes pictures.*Includes Rooney's own quotes about his life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I was a 13 year old boy for 30 years.” – Mickey Rooney A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s...
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American Legends: The Life of Mike Tyson
*Discusses Tyson's life in and out of the ring.*Includes Tyson's most colorful quotes.*Includes pictures of Tyson and important people in his life.“Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.” – Mike TysonA lot of ink has been...
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American Legends: The Life of Muhammad Ali
*Includes Ali's most colorful quotes.*Includes pictures of Ali and other boxers he fought.*Includes a Table of Contents.“To prove I am great, he will fall in eight.” – Muhammad AliA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s...
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American Legends: The Life of Nat King Cole
"If I could read it, I could play it." - Nat King Cole A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In...
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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 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
*Includes pictures*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate...
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American Legends: The Life of Paul Newman
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes Newman's own quotes about his life and career. "The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the...
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American Legends: The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Includes a list of dozens of Emerson's most inspirational quotes.*Includes pictures of Emerson and important people and places in his life.*Includes a Bibliography of Emerson's works and books about Emerson for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."Standing on the bare...
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American Legends: The Life of Red Cloud
"Look at me - I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we want to train our children right. Riches will do us no good. We could not take...
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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*Includes a table of contents“I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the best. I just...
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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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