Meltzer, Milton

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Carl Sandburg

a biography
1999
A biography of the poet who became known for his ability to speak to the common people, by shaping out of the plain English of ordinary Americans the voice of their vast experience.

Andrew Jackson

and his America
1993
A look at the life and times of the United States' seventh president in text and photographs.

Dorothea Lange

life through the camera
1986
A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers and rural poverty helped bring important social reforms.

Betty Friedan

a voice for women's rights
1986
Focuses on the childhood and youth of the writer, thinker, and social activist Betty Friedan.

A book about names

in which custom, tradition, law, myth, history, folklore, foolery, legend, fashion, nonsense, symbol, taboo help explain how we got our names and what they mean
1984
Offers tidbits from history, folklore, tradition, and other sources that help explain how people got their names and what they mean.

Food

1998
Discusses the social, political, economic, and gastronomic aspects of food in its many forms.

Benjamin Franklin

the new American
1988
Presents a biography of the multi-talented and accomplished founding father.

Albert Einstein

a biography
2008
Explores the life and achievements of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Albert Einstein.

Emily Dickinson

a biography
2006
Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.

Tough times

a novel
2007
In 1931 Worcester, Massachusetts, Joey Singer, the teenaged son of Jewish immigrants, suffers with his family through the early part of the Great Depression, trying to finish high school, working a milk delivery route, marching on Washington, and eventually even becoming a hobo, all the while trying to figure out how to go to college and realize his dream of becoming a writer.

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