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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The classic account of moving from slavery to freedom, by the celebrated African-American educator and university founder.
Booker T. Washington believed that every man and woman deserved a chance, regardless of their skin color. This classic work of literature, originally published in 1901, relays the story of a man born into slavery who, once freed, pursued education and racial equality. This new edition of Booker T. Washington's autobiography features...
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English
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"America's first families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, [this book] reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and first...
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Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Recounts the life of the dedicated man who survived a difficult childhood, became a country lawyer, and as sixteenth president of the United States guided the country during the Civil War.
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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From heading the CIA amid high tensions with the Soviets to overseeing the end of the Cold War as president of the United States, former President George H. W. Bush played a major role in the second half of the 20th century. In this book, his only daughter, Doro Bush Koch, examines the many roles her father has played: statesman, political leader, businessman, family man, sportsman, comedian, and, of course, father. Using events from his life, Doro...
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Publisher
Harper Collins Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time. Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative, groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose unlikely partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. More than thirty years after working side-by-side in the White House, Richard...
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Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A brief overview of the life of the man who was President of the United States during the difficult years of the Civil War and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
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Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents-a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Looks at what the presidents to be who were alive at various dates were doing at that moment, including serving in government, working in different fields, studying, or being a child, and wonders what the future presidents that are alive today are doing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose "statue-like solidity" concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Here...
17) A promised land
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English
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"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--‡c Provided by publisher.
18) John Adams
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Presents a biography portraying John Adams as a brilliant, fiercely independent Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and then rose to become the second president of the United States.
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