Industry, honesty, and an eye for the ladies are ever apparent in this candid self-portrait, from his humble birth in 1706 to the beginnings of his greatness in 1757.
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Author: Franklin, BenjaminSummary: -
Author: Franklin, BenjaminSummary:Words of wisdom from America's shrewdest observer of man and his ways.
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Author: James, HenrySummary:
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers...
Genre: General fiction, Classic fiction -
Author: Ransom, John L.Summary:
Ransom was 20 when he was captured and made prisoner of war in 1863 at Andersonville, Georgia. In prison, he was surrounded by death, disease and cruelty, but he survived to write this true...
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Author: Paine, ThomasSummary:
This pamphlet, which Paine published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence!
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Author: Franklin, BenjaminSummary:He was a publisher, printer, scientist and inventor, but Ben Franklin's greatest success lay in his work as a diplomat. In this unique recording of his account of his experiences as a spokesman...
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Author: PlatoSummary:"Behold! Human beings living in an underground den. Like ourselves, they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." With...
Genre: Philosophy, Political science -
Author: Connell, Evan S.Summary:
This national best-seller vividly reconstructs one of the most unbelievable and controversial battles in American military history-General Custer's Last Stand in 1876. Why would a seasoned leader...
Genre: History and geography