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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. “Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britains savior.” Wall Street Journal. In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--by the...

The life of Alexander Hamilton, a key leader in the United States after the Revolutionary War, is introduced in this early reader biography. Alexander Hamilton was one of Americas founders. He was the first secretary of the treasury and George Washingtons right-hand man. But he also made some dangerous enemies during his short yet dramatic life. Beginning readers will learn about the milestones in Alexander Hamiltons life in this Level Two I Can Read...

Profiles a man whose childhood love of reading and desire to know about everything led to a multifaceted career as an inventor, scientist, printer, and statesman.

Describes the events leading up to the assassination of Mohandas Ghandi, a preeminent champion of nonviolent civil disobedience, and details the political and social legacy he left behind.

This edition of Franklin's famous autobiography is accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations and an introduction that provides background for students and invites them to think about the work's lasting impact on American society and culture.

With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history. When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional...

From the Publisher: In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival and creates a finely nuanced and always ambiguous portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century. Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon" -ambitious, vindictive, and cruel-whose...

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were both fierce patriots during the Revolutionary War, but the politics of the young United States of America put them in constant conflict. Their extraordinary story of bitter fighting and resentment culminates in their famous duel.