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This biography examines the life of Hillary Clinton using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking black-and-white images and rich color photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Clinton's family background, childhood, education, political career, and historic presidential campaign. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text.--Provided by publisher.
64) Hillary Clinton
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Looks at the life and accomplishments of the former First Lady of the United States, United States Senator for New York, presidential candidate, and current Secretary of State serving in the adminsitration of Barack Obama.
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Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States - from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his historic campaign for President. Barack Obama For Beginners keeps the focus on the man and his record - accomplishments and missteps,...
73) The last brother
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Personally acquainted and sympathetic with his subject, the author of The Selling of the President, among other works, brings to startling life the childhood, brief triumph, and long downward slide of Ted Kennedy--a man at war with himself, doomed to live in the giant shadow of his brothers.
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Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette (1855-1925) was one of the most significant leaders of American progressivism. Nancy Unger integrates previously unknown details from La Follette's personal life with important events from his storied political career, revealing a complex man who was a compelling mixture of failure and accomplishment, tragedy and triumph. Serving as U.S. representative from 1885 to 1891, governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906, and...
77) Charles Sumner
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Standard library edition. American statesmen volume XXX
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