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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.
Author
Language
English
Description
This biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War II, and provides, with the advantage of hindsight, a far more acute analysis of his character and personality than any previously available, reaching the conclusion that he was perhaps America's greatest general and one of America's best presidents. The book starts with the story of D-Day--it was Ike's plan, Ike's decision, Ike's...
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
1997, c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history-more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable-and compulsively readable-account of the subject....
9) Stonewall
Author
Publisher
Putnam & Grosset Group
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A biography of the brilliant Southern general who gained the nickname Stonewall by his stand at Bull Run during the Civil War.
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