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Great lives
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William Jay Jacobs |
Biographical portraits of twenty-nine individuals who fought for human rights, from Roger Williams and Thomas Paine to Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King. |
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America's story
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William Jay Jacobs,Al M. Rocca |
A textbook tracing the history of the United States from the arrival of the earliest settlers in prehistoric times to the present day. |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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William Jay Jacobs |
A biography of the troubled nineteenth-century author with a discussion of his prose and poetry which greatly influenced prominent artists and writers throughout the world. |
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Hannibal, an African hero
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William Jay Jacobs |
A biography of Hannibal whose military tactics baffled the Roman Empire's finest generals and whose campaigns are still studied with interest by military strategists. |
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Prince Henry, the Navigator
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William Jay Jacobs |
A biography of the Portuguese prince who made sailing safer by his navigational maps and who designed the caravel--a type of sailing ship. |
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Robert Cavelier de La Salle
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William Jay Jacobs |
A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who traveled the entire length of the Mississippi and took possession of all its surrounding territory for France. |
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