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Fantastic Biographies
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Posted about 1 year ago Have you read a biography that you couldn't put down? Please share! |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I enjoyed reading "Lincoln: a Photobiography" by Russell Freedman. I have used it in the classroom to introduce a new genre to 4th & 5th grade students. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I just returned from a 30 day tour of China. To help me understand China I have read Jung Chang's autobiography Wild Swans and her biography of of chairman Mao entitled Mao, the unknown story. They were both well written and the Mao biography was the result of ten years of research and hundreds of interviews. If you are interested in China'shistory and where it's going, you might want to read both of these. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I really loved the Ben Carter biography. About a doctor. I read it when I was in high school and just recently re-read. Still so inspirational! |
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| Posted about 1 year ago We are reading 'Warriors Don't Cry' by Melba Pattillo Beals in the 8th grade class I am in now. It is about the integration of a school in Little Rock in the 1950s written by one of the students who integrated the school. It is so interesting! |
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| Posted about 1 year ago The Ben Carter book is inspiring but contains a strong religious bent- not especially appropriate for the public classroom curriculum but a great read and a good addition for the school library- where student's can borrow and read the book. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams, was facinating. http://www.amazon.com/Huey-Long-T-Harry-Williams/dp/0394747909. Immensely insightful was, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan, http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Shining-Lie-America-Vietnam/dp/0679724141 |
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| Posted 11 months ago Soldier by Anthony Herbert |
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| Posted 10 months ago "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", but I don't remember the author ... Sorry! Neat and well-written! I read it before I studied in the US, so it is accessible even to a non-American. Apostolos |
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| Posted 10 months ago I read a great biography on Winston Churchill and I am reading the Reagan Diaries. Both are fascinating, especially the Reagan Diaries, it's wild to see the White House from the other side of the desk. |