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Nationally best-selling author Robert Dallek is one of the most respected historians in America. He has won the American Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for his excellent biographies of U.S. presidents. In An Unfinished Life, Dallek offers the first authoritative, single-volume story of the life of John F. Kennedy.
Drawing from an archive of the previously unavailable information, Dallek paints a brilliant portrait of a legendary president who...
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English
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The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights...
5) John Adams
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JEF - Patriotism (Adults/YA)
MCL - Pulitzer Prize for Biography
NPM - 11th grade AP Language & Composition 2024 Summer Reading
MCL - Pulitzer Prize for Biography
NPM - 11th grade AP Language & Composition 2024 Summer Reading
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Chronicles the life of the second president, John Adams, describing the many conflicts--including international exploits--he faced during his long political career and exploring the love story that was his marriage to Abigail and the complexity of his friendship with Thomas Jefferson.
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2003.
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First edition.
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English
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He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career. She was a contract player at MGM, unmarried and rapidly growing too old to play the starlet. It was time, she decided, to settle down and become Mrs. Somebody Important. So, Nancy Davis contrived an introduction to Ronald Reagan, and the Reagans march into history began.
“The Reagans: Portrait...
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2016.
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English
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Bob Wright's personal story, from his 20 years as president and CEO of NBC and his total transformation of the company, to the foundation of Autism Speaks, an advocacy and research funding organization that he and his wife started after one of their grandsons was diagnosed with the condition.
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The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever. Rickey's is the classic American tale of a poor boy from Ohio whose deep-seated faith and dogged work ethic took him to the pinnacle of success, earning him a place in the Hall...
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