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The Accidental President

A. J. Baime

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave

Frederick Douglass

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James J. Hill certainly demonstrates the impact one willful individual can have on the course of history. We shall never see his like again, and that simple fact adds yet another dimension to the fascination his life will afford to each new generation.

Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)

As the new owner of the Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Halifax River Line, his first decision was to build a bridge across the St. Johns.

Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

“Beginning with the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, the United States experienced a lapse in ability, will, and imagination that was astonishing for a nation that, two generations earlier, had made nine missions to the moon. For almost a decade after the last Shuttle mission, the nation had not been able to send humans into space. It was f... See more

He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions

David McCullough • Brave Companions

CHAPTER ONE · CICERO’S FINEST HOUR SPQR: 63 BCE

Mary Beard • SPQR

Four years after arriving in Virginia, Walt quit working for NASA to start a consulting firm—User Systems, Incorporated—which he and Billie ran out of their home.

Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild

“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life.”