An Autobiography, Paperback

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Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy ...

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In this riveting personal story, award-winning, bestselling country musicrecording artist Merle Haggard takesyou on a tour through his house ofmemo...

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The memoirs of a legendary figure in TV and the arts, beautifully written, honest and fascinating.

Reducere. Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson...

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General Sir Richard Dannatt's distinguished career in the army has spanned thirty-eight years and seen him serve in many different theatres of conf...

DescriptionPublished to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography...

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When you look at the picture on the cover of this book, what do you 'see'? A tiny baby that probably won't survive; or, a gift from God. Who, even ...

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Agathe von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the Trapp Family Singers, offers readers the real story behind an American classic in her poignant and fas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: P. J. RileyShot at, bombed, imprisoned and arrested for murder. His is the story the establishment doesn't want you to read...

Reducere. Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scienti...

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. As Blighty, Great Britain was a qui...

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Reducere. Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of ...

Reducere. Ely Green was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1893. His father was a member of the white gentry, the son of a former Confederate officer. His mother...

Reducere. Byron Nelson was one of golf's greatest legends. He was one of the finest golfers ever to pick up a putter, and the man who had the most magnificen...

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Reducere. Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hu...

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Reducere. Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute. Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice. This is his story. "I have begun eve...

Jim Spain dedicated his life to education, teaching over 40 years of college level courses, between Michigan Technological University, University o...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a young boy struggling to find his way through the immense poverty, secrecy and war-time suffering that gripped his life in Northern ...

Reducere. This book is about some of the life experiences of a retired chief of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe of Delaware. He informs us what it was like growin...

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