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IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
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Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to...
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"The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal...
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The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
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The 50 heroes in this book include founders, teachers, artists, scientists, world leaders and some people who might fit right in your neighborhood. Real heroes are often those who quietly do what is right - especially when everyone else seems to be doing something else. You'll be inspired by the people and the stories included in this book.
14) Paul Revere
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Recounts the story of the American patriot who rode from Boston to Lexington to warn his fellow citizens that the British were coming.
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Many consider Franklin the most fascinating American man who ever lived. A scientist, businessman, diplomat, author, inventor, philosopher and politician, he is America's original Renaissance man. His remarkable and varied accomplishments include the discovery of electricity and the modernization of the postal system. Brilliant and bawdy, a master statesman and a cultural icon, Franklin was so important and popular in his day that, according to the...
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[1982]
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"Kissinger recalls ... the second administration of Richard Nixon ... the Watergate scandal ... the 1973 October war in the Middle East ... Year of Europe; two Nixon-Brezhnev summits and the controversy over detente; the Shah of Iran; the oil crisis and the effort to overcome it ... the US airlift to Israel and military alert; the origins of shuttle diplomacy; the fall of Salvador Allende in Chile; and the events surrounding Nixon's resignation."
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