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Language
English
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"Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives--broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In...
4) Bill Clinton
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
[Franklin Watts library ed.]
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Details the life of Bill Clinton, from his formative years to his tenure as governor of Arkansas, and focuses on his 1992 presidential campaign.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life from the cradle to the present day; and books on Clinton have tended to be highly polarized, casting the former president in an overly positive or negative light. In this, the first complete oral history of Clinton's...