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Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to...
9) Gandhi
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Presents the story of the great leader who succeeded in bringing about social and political change in India through nonviolent means
14) Paul Revere
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Pub. Date
1999
Description
A biography of the man made famous by a poem about the American Revolution, placing his life and work in its real historical context.
18) The Grass Crown
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Masters of Rome volume 2
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
As the Roman Empire declines Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla vie for political dominance.
19) Jefferson Davis
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Pub. Date
c1990
Description
A biography of the man who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.