Roffman, Karin

Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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Mohn, Reinhard

Summary: A legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world's foremost businesspeople.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009

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Ruffin, Frances E.

Summary: Profiles the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, and an advisor to presidents.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2008

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Richards, Keith

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009

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Richards, Leonard L.

Summary: It has always been understood that the 1848 discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada influenced the battle over the admission of California to the Union. Now, historian Richards makes clear the links between the Gold Rush and many of the regional crises in the lead-up to the Civil War. Richards explains how Southerners envisioned California as a new market for slaves, only to be frustrated by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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Stiefel, Chana

Summary: "The story begins with Yaffa Eliach, a spirited young girl who grows up in a vibrant, happy 800-year-old town in Poland, filled with family life and rich traditions. Yaffa's grandmother, who receives a gift of a camera from America, becomes the village photographer, and takes photos of all the family events: weddings, bar mitzvahs, and family gatherings. And on the Jewish New Year, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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Stearns, Richard (Richard E.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009

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Askwith, Richard

Summary: For a decade after the Second World War, Emil Zátopek—“the Czech locomotive”—redefined the sport of distance running, pushing back the frontiers of what was considered possible. He won five Olympic medals, set eighteen world records, and went undefeated in the 10,000-metre race for six years. His dominance has never been equaled. In the darkest days of the Cold War, he stood for a spirit of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2016

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Bak, Richard

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991

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Brookhiser, Richard.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002

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Ellmann, Richard

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987

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Greene, Richard

Summary: "A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. Graham Greene lived a life as strange and compelling as those in his brilliant novels. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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Hack, Richard.

Summary: Based on newly uncovered personal letters, sealed court testimony, recently declassified FBI files, and never-before-revealed autopsy findings, this book by an investigative journalist and Hollywood insider is the definitive biography of Howard Hughes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2001

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Kozar, Richard.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001

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Shelton, Richard

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 1992

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Zacks, Richard.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2002

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Taylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)

Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019

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Aldous, Richard

Summary: "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian--and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right--Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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Bak, Richard

Summary: "The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero. The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2011

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Brookhiser, Richard.

Summary: In Founders’ Son, celebrated historian Richard Brookhiser presents a compelling new biography of Abraham Lincoln that highlights his lifelong struggle to carry on the work of the Founding Fathers. Following Lincoln from his humble origins in Kentucky to his assassination in Washington, D.C., Brookhiser shows us every side of the man: laborer, lawyer, congressman, president; storyteller, wit,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2014

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Brookhiser, Richard.

Summary: Chronicles the life and career of the fourth American president, including his work constructing the U.S. Constitution, his role in shaping American politics, his influence on partisan journalism, and his leadership during the War of 1812.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2011

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Francis, Richard

Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005

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Rhodes, Richard

Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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