Immortals of history

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Lenin, genius of revolution

A biography of the man who led the Russian Revolution of 1917, created the first socialist state, and became Russia's first Communist leader.

Mahatma Gandhi

Biography of the man recognized by the people of India as the father of their nation, whose belief in and use of non-violent resistance won for India independence from Britain.

Captain James Cook: genius afloat

A biography of a common British seaman who becomes a navigator, scientist, and explorer; accurately charts and sails the Pacific; and discovers the islands of Hawaii.

Abraham Lincoln

Studies the life of the sixteenth President of the United States, emphasizing the steps he took to free the slaves and the Civil War which resulted.

Joseph Stalin

A biography of the son of a Georgian shoemaker who rose from bitter poverty to rule as terrorist dictator of Communist Russia for twenty-four years.

Abraham Lincoln

A biography of the sixteenth President with emphasis on the Civil War years.

Joan of Arc

A biography of the young peasant woman who led the French army to victory over the English and saw the crowning of the French king before she was captured and burned at the stake.

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