The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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From his family origins and youth to his professional and intellectual life as a printer, publisher, diplomat, and brilliant inventor, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is an astounding work that chal ...
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Born into a modest Detroit family, Henry Ford became a pioneer of American ingenuity and industry. In 1922, at the peak of his success in putting countless automobiles on the road, Ford put his own st ...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
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One woman's amazing story of abuse, degradation, and courage as she faces the devastating hardships of America's "peculiar institution."
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Wikipedia Tour: Key Philosophers
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” So said the famous Greek philosopher Socrates, one of the most famous and important voices in Western philosophy. That sentiment is undoubtedly shared by ...
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Before he became one of America's best-loved authors, Mark Twain lived out his own adventures as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River. The waterway that would run through the heart of some of ...
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Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters
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Enter the world of the woman behind the beloved classics. Here, in her own words and in the stories of those who knew her best, Jane Austen comes alive.
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous
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Harriet Beecher Stowe. Louisa May Alcott. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. These are some of the inspiring women whose lives Bolton traces in this unique collection of mini-biographies, offering a woman's ...
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If the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple words--TOO LATE. The nature and character of slavery have been sub ...
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Spies trade in stealth and secrets. From Belle Boyd in the American Civil War to legendary Soviet spy Richard Sorge to Fred and Ethel Rosenberg, these traitors—or heroes, depending upon your outlook ...
Wikipedia Tour: Famous Architects
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s name powerfully evokes the style he pioneered and which gained him renown. But although the solid construction and deliberate horizontal lines of Wright’s Prairie School are ...
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When it came time to tell the life story of Samuel Johnson, a central figure of British thought and literature, only the most brilliant of biographers would do. Happily, in 1791, James Boswell rose to ...
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
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You know his name. Now, in his own words, read the incredible story of the wealthiest man in history.
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It's been called the best nonfiction book of the twentieth century. At times sarcastic, at others heady, Adams's reaches far beyond his school days, exploring the human experience in a rapidly changin ...
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Written by her nephew, this memoir offers an intimate, familial look at the figure so many readers have come to know, simply and affectionately, as "Jane."
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From a childhood marred by the cruelties of slavery Booker T. Washington rose to become a champion for black Americans. Here's how he pulled himself up by his boostraps—and his vision for how his di ...
Wikipedia Tour: Nobel Laureates in Literature
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Since their creation at the end of the nineteenth century, the Nobel Prizes have been recognized as the pinnacle of achievement in the fields of literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, and peace. Th ...
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Get a glimpse of Victorian life through these astute essays on the people, literature, and culture that concerned nineteenth century society.
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The intertwined stories of Richard Stallman and the development of free software that have changed the way we interact with our digital world.
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