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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, the author paints a full portrait of Washington's life and career in the context of eighteenth-century America, richly detailing his private life and illustrating the ways in which it influenced his public persona. When Washington died in 1799, Ellis tells us, he was eulogized as "first in the hearts of his countrymen." Since then, however, his image has been chiseled...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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This is the most epic book yet in the multimillion-selling series. Readers around the world have been enthralled by Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus -- riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now Bill O'Reilly, anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, recounts the dramatic final months of World War II in Europe, and General George S. Patton...
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Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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On June 25, 1876, the most famous Cavalry and Indian battle in frontier history was fought on the banks of a lonely Montana stream that the Sioux called Greasy Grass and the white men called Little Big Horn. Although much has been written about that historic day, no one really knows what happened to the 7th Cavalry. No one except Tom Ballard. As the only eyewitness, he finds that surviving the battle was just the first step. Now the people who want...
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English
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"For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger she's believed since childhood would one day carry on her legacy -- the Very Cherry General Store. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary, as she's known locally, runs the community hub -- part...
7) Custer
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic...
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Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Patriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army, and privy to the Conway cabal to oust Washington from command. He was Benedict Arnold's aide, but the first to reveal Arnold's treachery. By 38, he was the senior general in the United States army--and had turned traitor himself. Wilkinson's audacious career...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, such as Russiagate, the COVID outbreak,...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans...
14) Ulysses S. Grant
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Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
©2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War who became the eighteenth president of the United States.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished...
17) Colin Powell
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
©2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Colin Powell, the first African American to become secretary of state.
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Language
English
Description
On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of...
20) Benedict Arnold
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Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the rise and fall of Benedict Arnold, America's most famous traitor. Traces Arnold's life from his wealthy, upper-class childhood to his betrayal of the American Continental army during the Revolutionary War. Explains Arnold's legacy in our society today.
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