Champions of freedom

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Polish pianist and patriot
  • Lisandrelli, Elaine Slivinski
1999
A biography of the Polish piano virtuoso who became the first prime minister of a united Poland after World War I.

Prisoner for peace

Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's struggle for democracy
  • Parenteau, John
1994
Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi, a political prisoner in Burma who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

Boris Yeltsin, first president of Russia

  • Miller, Calvin Craig
1994
A biography of the Russian leader who was elected president in 1990.

Champion of freedom

Nelson Mandela
  • Sawyer, Kem Knapp
2012
Chronicles the life of the South African statesman who spent more than twenty-seven years in prison for conspiracy to overthrow apartheid and went on to be elected president of the country in 1994.
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