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1) Crazy Horse
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Strips away the tall tales of legend to reveal the essence of Crazy Horse, profiling him as a brilliant and ascetic warrior-hero whose life exemplified Native American tragedy and the end of the untamed West. Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure of American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. Yet his story remains an encapsulation of the Native American tragedy and the death of the untamed West. Crazy Horse...
3) Mao Zedong
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This intimate portrait of Mao Zedong, one of the most formidable and elusive rulers in modern history, introduces the essential background about the Chinese leader, including his relations with family, friends, and confidential assistants, as well as hisyouthful writings, poems, letters, and drafts of speeches. Drawing from his expertise in Chinese politics & culture, the author penetrates Mao's rhetoric & infamous self-will to distill an intimate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The life story of the nineteenth-century author furnishes an analysis of all of Melville's writings and depicts his days as a whaleship deckhand and his bitterness over the public's failure to embrace his master work, "Moby-Dick"
9) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the African American woman immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act
11) Woodrow Wilson
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Woodrow Wilson explores the life, academic career, and presidency of this flawed apostle of world peace
12) Buddha
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A world-renouned religious thinker contemplates one of the world's most sacred figures. In a profound blend of biography, religion, history, and philosophy, Armstrong's highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man.
17) Charles Dickens
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
18) Elvis Presley
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Charts the life of the rock-and-roll music star from his childhood experiences as a devoted son from a small town to the achievements that changed the nation's musical culture.
19) Joseph Smith
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of the founder of the Mormon Church from his birth in 1805, through the visions he started receiving at age fourteen, to his assassination in 1844.