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A general resource book about the fundamentals, players, and history of the 2000 Presidential election. Includes views on the election process as well as notable elections outside the United States.

The real-life stories of such heroes as Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Stonewall Jackson, Colin Powell, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Captain America, Spiderman, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager, Will Rogers, Clint Eastwood, Hank Aaron, and Mark McGwire as well as many more.

Contains excerpts from the memoirs of over sixty Americans, including Walt Whitman, W.E.B. DuBois, Helen Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Eudora Welty, and Sherman Alexie.

Explores how strict interpretations of the Holy Qur'an has led Muslim fundamentalists to declare war against secular nations whose lenient ideas are considered apostate, a sin punishable by death.

Hawkeye, a young frontier scout, and Chingachgook, a Mohican Indian, form an unlikely friendship as they attempt to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile country during the French and Indian War.

Provides background on the bloodiest battle in the Civil War, a day-by-day account of the fighting, and a discussion of the battle's aftermath.