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Paths to Success
Statisticians tell us that impoverished backgrounds are decent predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions. While the authors reveal consistencies between pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites.
The Great Acceptance - The Life Story of F.N. Charrington
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Paths to Success
Who would have thought that Joycelyn Elders, born into a family that chopped cotton and trapped raccoons to survive, would grow up to be Surgeon General of the United States? Or that Clarence Thomas, brought up by his barely literate grandfather, would someday be a Justice of the Supreme Court? Certainly not statisticians, who tell us that impoverished backgrounds are fairly accurate predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions: those who, against all odds, have made the American myth of rags-to-riches a reality. For more than ten years Charles Harrington and Susan Boardman explored the life histories of successful Americans forty to fifty-five ye...
Kerry Landing
On August 2, 1922 the Lady Wicklow steamed into Tralee Bay. On board was the author, then 21, who wrote an enthralling personal account of the landing at Fenit and of the Battle for Tralee. Later he gathered factual accounts from the opposing IRA, ma
Providence City Documents ...
Contains the reports of city officials for the preceding year.
The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and Their Values: A Bibliography
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