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Ramses the Great
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Ramses the Great

Ramses II, pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty, left an indelible mark on ancient Egypt. Often known as Ramses the Great, his reign was a golden age when political and cultural life thrived.

The Life of Aretha Franklin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

The Life of Aretha Franklin

Author Silvia Anne Sheafer relates the entertaining life and career of this legend of soul music, from her childhood in Detroit, through her struggles with personal heartache and racial prejudice, to her continued success as a major force in the music industry. Crowned the "Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin has won fifteen Grammy Awards, and has also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

African-American Biographies
  • Language: en

African-American Biographies

-- 100+page biographies of inspirational African Americans. -- Explores both the personal and the professional lives of these exemplary men and women. -- Each book contains chapter notes, a chronology, a further reading list, and an index.

Aretha Franklin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

Aretha Franklin

Explores the life and career of the soul and gospel singer, from her musical upbringing in Detroit to her struggles with personal heartache and racial prejudice and her success in the music industry.

Roh Moo Hyun
  • Language: en

Roh Moo Hyun

Roh Moo Hyun, a farm boy from humble beginnings, became president of the Republic of South Korea in December 2002. Elected to the country's highest position, Roh confronted a shadowed past of political and economic obsessives, catastrophic wars, and a global nuclear crisis. Roh established three goals for his government: democracy for the people, a society of balanced development, and an era of peace and prosperity. Although his administration was marred by scandal, there is no denying that Roh's leadership and democratic agenda helped to forge the country's prominent position in world affairs, economic growth, and persistent efforts for reunification with North Korea.

Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

Aimee Semple McPherson

This new series examines the lives of people who have had a major impact on the history or current practice of religion. Individuals profiled include clergy of diverse faiths as well as lay people who have had a profound intellectual influence on religious and philosophical thought. After a devastating missionary trip to China on which her husband died, Aimee Semple McPherson refused to give up her dream of winning new souls to Christianity. As a talented speaker, she was able to become a famous evangelist, known for her tent revivals, radio programs, and faith healings.

Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

Aimee Semple McPherson

After a devastating missionary trip to China on which her husband died, Aimee Semple McPherson refused to give up her dream of winning new souls to Christianity.

American Alchemy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

American Alchemy

California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption. Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners--women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West--he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture. Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage--a rebellion against standards of respectability.

Women of the West
  • Language: en

Women of the West

Brief sketches of a variety of western women of the 1800's. Illustrated with graphics of the period.

Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Georgia O'Keeffe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Explores the personal life and artistic career of painter Georgia O'Keeffe, discussing her early years, her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, and the development of her art.