Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
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 Contents A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is...
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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
*Includes pictures.*Includes Hudson's own quotes about his life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.“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...
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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...
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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 pictures.*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...
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American Legends: The Life of Spencer Tracy
*Includes pictures.*Includes Tracy's quotes about his life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.“Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.” – Spencer TracyA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s...
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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,*Includes pictures of Douglas and other important people, places, and events in his life. .*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes...
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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
"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision." (Stevie Wonder) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost...
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American Legends: The Life of Susan B. Anthony
*Includes pictures.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self... Stand or fall by her own...
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American Legends: The Life of Tecumseh
Tecumseh's reputation among Americans has been both the most unique and anomalous. As the leader of the Shawnee, Tecumseh was the most famous Native American of the early 19th century, and he attempted to peacefully establish a Native American nation...
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American Legends: The Life of the Kingfish, Huey Long
*Includes pictures*Includes Long's own quotes about his career*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.” – Huey Long, 1933The late 19th and early 20th centuries in...
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American Legends: The Life of Thomas Edison
Includes a list of Edison's patents. Includes pictures of Edison and important people in his life. Includes some of Edison's most inspiring quotes and explanations about his inventive techniques. Includes a Table of Contents. "He led no armies into battle,...
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American Legends: The Life of Thurgood Marshall
"A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not...
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American Legends: The Life of Tony Curtis
*Includes pictures *Includes Curtis' quotes about his own life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.” –...
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American Legends: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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 Walt Disney
"Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine,...
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American Legends: The Life of Walter Cronkite
"And that's the way it is." - Walter Cronkite 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...
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American Legends: The Life of Walter Matthau
*Includes pictures*Includes Matthau's own quotes about his life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality...'The Odd Couple' was mine. That...
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American Legends: The Life of Will Rogers
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers 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...
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American Legends: The Life of William Faulkner
*Includes pictures of important people and places.*Includes Faulkner's own quotes about his life and career, as well as his famous Nobel Prize acceptance speech.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.A lot of ink has been spilled covering...
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American Legends: The Life of William Holden
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of...
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American Legends: The Life of Woodrow Wilson
*Includes Wilson's Fourteen Points, Inaugural Addresses, and his War Message to Congress for World War I.*Discusses controversies surrounding Wilson's life and presidency, including the rumors surrounding his wife's role in 1920 after his strokes in office.*Includes pictures of Wilson and...
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American Legends: The Marx Brothers
"The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl." - Irving Berlin "I sent the club a wire stating, 'PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL...
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American Legends: The Pilgrims and the Mayflower
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts from the journals of two of the Mayflower's passengers*Includes a Table of Contents.“By God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and...
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