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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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American Legends: The Salem Witch Trials
*Includes descriptions of the trials and executions of the accused.*Includes testimony from some of the cases and the petitions of some of the accused asking for clemency.*Includes pictures depicting important people, places, and events.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading."More than...
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American Legends: The Three Stooges
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, readers can get caught up to speed...
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American Legends: The Wright Brothers
*Includes pictures of the Wright brothers, their planes, and important events.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.“For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel...
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American Outlaws: The Life and Legacy of Baby Face Nelson
America has always preferred heroes who weren't clean cut, an informal ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering spirit that defined the nation in previous centuries. The early 19th century saw the glorification of frontier folk heroes like Davy Crockett...
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American Outlaws: The Life and Legacy of John Dillinger
"I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here." (John Dillinger) America has always preferred heroes who weren't clean cut, an informal ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering spirit that defined the nation...
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America's Deadliest Hurricanes: The History of the Three Worst Hurricanes in American History
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America's Deadliest Hurricanes: The History of the Three Worst Hurricanes in American History
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsHurricanes have been devastating communities for thousands of years, bringing about various combinations of rain and wind that can do everything from taking down some dead...
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America's Deadliest Shipwrecks: The History of the SS Sultana, the SS Eastland, and the PS General Slocum
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts of the disasters*Includes online resources and bibliographies for further reading*Includes a table of contentsThe Sultana is a historical footnote because of the Civil War, but it was also intimately tied to the war. Although Robert E....
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America's Favorite Comedy Acts: The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, and Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
*Includes pictures *Includes the comedy acts' most famous quotes *Includes bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents There has been no shortage of comedy acts in American history, but the most famous and popular of them all is...
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America's Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading“The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, as an intimacy ought to be avoided." – A passage from a 1751 South Carolina lawIt has often been said that...
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America's Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the projects' construction*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsThe Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epitome of contradiction. On the one hand, it...
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America's Legendary Frontier Towns: The History of Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the frontier towns written by people who lived there *Profiles famous Westerners like Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill, and more *Includes online resources and bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents The Wild West...
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America's Most Famous Disappearances: The Mysterious History of the Disappearances of Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart, D.B. Cooper, Jean Spangler, and Dor
*Includes pictures *Discusses the popular theories behind each mystery *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It was the great mystery of its time and still reads like an episode of “Law and Order” today. In December 1910,...
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America's Most Famous Natural Wonders: The History of the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, and Yosemite National Park
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts and descriptions of the natural wonders*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingEven for those who have never seen it, the Grand Canyon is perhaps the most appreciated and remarkable feature of the American landscape....
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America's Most Influential Jazz Artists
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.” – Duke EllingtonLouis Armstrong once claimed that “Every time I close my...
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America's Most Influential Mountain Men: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Explorers Who Helped Chart Paths to the West
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,000 living in the West. Their origins were disparate, although they included many Anglo-Americans....
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America's Most Notorious Domestic Terrorists: The Life and Crimes of the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh
Most Americans old enough to follow the news during the 1990s are instantly familiar with the Unabomber, a name given to the man behind a series of bombs that were periodically mailed or delivered to university professors and airlines, which...
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