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American Legends: The Life of Montgomery Clift
*Includes pictures*Includes Clift's own quotes about his life and career*Includes online resources, footnotes, and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.” –...
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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 Myrna Loy
*Includes pictures*Includes Loy's quotes about her own life and career*Includes contemporary reviews of her movies*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach...
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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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
*Includes pictures of Hawthorne and other important people and places in his life.*Explains how Hawthorne's friends and family influenced his classic works.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."The bubble reputation is as much a bubble in literature...
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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 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 started six officers, seized my...
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American Legends: The Life of Pocahontas
"So it is, that some 10 years ago being in Virginia, and taken prisoner by the power of Powhatan their chief King, I received from this great Savage exceeding great courtesy, especially from his son Nantaquaus, the most manliest, comeliest,...
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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 boss, a theater director and...
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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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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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