the untold story of young Winston and his American mentor
McMenamin, Michael
2007
Recounts the friendship between Winston Churchill and Bourke Cockran, a New York City Congressman who became Churchill's mentor as well as a lover to Churchill's American-born mother Jennie.
Offers a brief introduction to the life and times of Nat Love, a former slave who left his family farm and travels west in the hopes of becoming a cowboy.
Biography of the famous cowboy nicknamed Deadwood Dick, who was born a slave, left home for the west at age 15, and became known as the best roper and best shot in the west.