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1) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his...
2) Ali: a life
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
xv, 623 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle. He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us over and over again). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth century's greatest radicals and most compelling figures. At his funeral in 2016, eulogists said Ali had transcended race and united the country, but they...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend - the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig's life was more complicated - and, perhaps, even more heroic - than anyone really knew. Drawing...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front--and Jackie Robinson had a chance to lead the way. He was an unlikely hero. He had little experience in organized baseball, his swing was far from graceful, and he was assigned to play a position he had never tried before. But the biggest concern was his temper--Robinson was an angry man who played aggressively. In order to succeed...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone's handwritten personal letters, "New York Times" bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation's most notorious criminal in rich new detail.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lola has a mind of her own and, with the help of Grandpa Ed and the support of her mother and friends, she learns how to use her determination to right a wrong at school" --
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the pivotal contributions of a feminist birth-control campaigner, a wealthy schizophrenic's wife, a disgraced Harvard scientist, and a boundary-breaking Catholic doctor in the development of the birth-control pill.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"More than 80 years have passed since the height of Capone's power, yet his impact is still felt today. Al Capone: Icon examines Capone's personal history and lasting legacy and unveils his unexpected connections to modern-day organized crime, law enforcement, popular culture from movies to rap music, even everyday life in Chicago." -- Container.