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Killing the dream

James Earl Ray and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1999
Reexamines the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., looking at some of the puzzles that have sprung up during the thirty years in which convicted shooter James Earl Ray has been in prison, and discussing the life of Ray, a chronic troublemaker who grew up to be a career criminal.

Maya Angelou

intimate portrait
1998
The story of Angelou's life, a collection of great achievements as well as personal tragedy, a prolific writer who was the recipient of over 30 honorary degrees and awards.

The night trilogy

Night : Dawn : Day
2008
Presents Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel's account of his experiences as a young boy with his father in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and features two novels, including "Dawn" in which a young man, living in Palestine after World War II as a member of a Jewish underground movement, has misgivings when ordered to execute a British hostage, and "Day," in which a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor, involved in an automobile accident, questions the meaning and worth of living.

Elie Wiesel goes home

2002
Nobel Peace Laureate and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is shadowed by a documentary crew as he returns to his native village in Romania and relates the story of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Birkenau as a child.

First person singular

Elie Wiesel
2002
Elie Wiesel reflects on his life, his work, and his concerns for th future of mankind in this new age of terrorism.

Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez's One hundred years of solitude

2009
Collects ten critical essays on Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude;" and includes a chronology of the author's life and works along with a bibliography, notes, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Elie Wiesel

spokesman for remembrance
2000
Presents volume four in an eight-volume series on Holocaust Biographies and examines the role that Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor, played and provides information on his youth in Romania, anti-Semitism, his survival from the concentration camps, and his work after the war as an educator and speaker on behalf of human rights around the world.

A beautiful mind

the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
2011
Chronicles the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., and discusses his contributions to the study of economics, his illegitimate child, his bouts with schizophrenia, and his Nobel Prize-winning theories.

Parallel journeys

1995
An account of World War II in Germany as told from the viewpoints of a former Nazi soldier and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

A beautiful mind

the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
2001
Chronicles the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., and discusses his contributions to the study of economics, his illegitimate child, his bouts with schizophrenia, and his Nobel Prize-winning theories.

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