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American Legends: The Life of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
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 "Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers....
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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 life is great...
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American Legends: The Life of Chuck Norris
*Includes pictures*Includes Norris' own quotes about his life and career*Includes online resources and footnotes for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and...
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American Legends: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead." (Cornelius Vanderbilt) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much...
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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 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 how he...
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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 and it...
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American Legends: The Life of Dick Van Dyke
*Includes pictures*Includes Van Dyke's own quotes about his life and career*Includes a bibliography*Includes a table of contents“I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio...
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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 Doris Day
*Includes pictures.*Includes Day's quotes about her life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.“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...
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American Legends: The Life of Dolly Parton
*Includes pictures*Includes Parton's own quotes about her life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton “I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because...
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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 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 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 Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the...
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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 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 Elizabeth Taylor
*Includes pictures of Taylor and important people, places, and scenes.*Includes Taylor's own quotes about her upbringing, films and relationships.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions." – Elizabeth TaylorA lot...
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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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American Legends: The Life of Etta James
Etta James, the legendary jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues, and soul singer, was perfectly positioned to reign as the supreme artist in the emerging soul genre of the '40s and '50s in America. No one ever doubted her talent, the...
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American Legends: The Life of Ernest Hemingway
*Includes pictures of important people and places.*Includes some of Hemingway's most famous quotes.*Analyzes the real life inspirations behind Hemingway's work and separates fact from fiction regarding Hemingway's life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading."If a writer of prose knows enough of...
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American Legends: The Life of Farrah Fawcett
"TV had much more impact back in the '70s than it does today. Charlie's Angels got huge numbers every week - nothing really dominates the television landscape like that today. Now there are so many channels and so many more shows it's...
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American Legends: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Includes pictures of important people and places.*Includes some of Fitzgerald's most famous quotes.*Analyzes the real life inspirations behind Fitzgerald's work and the stormy relationship with Zelda.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."All good writing is swimming under...
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American Legends: The Life of Fred Astaire
*Includes pictures of Astaire and other important people and scenes.*Includes Astaire's quotes about his own life and others' quotes about him.*Includes a bibliography for further reading."No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been...
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American Legends: The Life of Frank Sinatra
*Includes pictures*Includes some of Sinatra's most famous and colorful quotes.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading*Includes a Table of Contents.“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” – Frank SinatraA lot of ink has...
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American Legends: The Life of Gary Cooper
"I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but...
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American Legends: The Life of Frederick Douglass
*Includes pictures of Douglass 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 Gene Kelly
*Includes pictures.*Includes Kelly's quotes about his life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.“Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.” – Gene KellyA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s...
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American Legends: The Life of Gene Autry
"Music has been the better part of my career. Movies are wonderful fun, and they give you a famous face. But how the words and melody are joined, how they come together out of air and enter the mind, this...
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American Legends: The Life of Gene Tierney
"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?" (Gene Tierney) "I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so...
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