Emphasizes the boyhood of this railroad car designer, including the experience which started his thinking about better places to sleep.
A biography of the man declared the nineteenth President of the United States by the electoral college in the disputed election of 1876.
A biography of the American author whose life and works were greatly influenced by her childhood in China.
The biography of the nineteenth-century Swedish singer whose vocal range and tone quality made her one of the leading opera stars of her day.
