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Biography & Personal Papers

The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 8

Progress and Reaction in the Age of Reform, 1909-13

Author: Edited by Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino
Pub Date: December 2001

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Aaron Copland

The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

Author: Howard Pollack
Pub Date: 2000

The first time in paperback, this is the best full-length biography of Aaron Copland, his life and his music learn more...

link to catalog page KAHN, Between Tedium and Terror

Author: Sy M. Kahn
Pub Date: 2000

An on-the-ground, at-the moment, true WWII tale, wonderfully and sensitively written, and chronicling a young man’s coming into maturity during some of the darkest days in 20th Century history--and one of less than a handful of actual diaries that came out of that war. learn more...

Bitter Music

Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos

Author: Harry Partch
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2000

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The Drums of the 47th

Author: Robert J. Burdette
Pub Date: 2000

An extraordinarily vivid, thoughtful, and literary memoir of the common soldier’s experience during the Civil War by a professional writer. learn more...

The First Chouteaus

River Barons of Early St. Louis

Author: William E. Foley and C. David Rice
Pub Date: 2000

The true story of a fascinating pair of entrepenuerial brothers who built a huge trade empire along the Mississippi River learn more...

For Freedom's Sake

The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

Author: Chana Kai Lee
Pub Date: July 2000

The fascinating story of a childhood sharecropper who fought against racial injustice and classism within her own race to rise to national prominence in the civil rights movement learn more...

Jane Addams

A Biography

Author: James Weber Linn Introduction by Anne Firor Scott
Pub Date: 2000

One of the finest--and most complete--biographies of Jane Addams ever written learn more...

Life of Henry David Thoreau

Author: Henry S. Salt
Pub Date: 2000

A definitive and much-admired biography of Thoreau, now made available (and affordable!) in this first-ever paperback edition of Henry Salt’s final version. learn more...

The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself

Author: Phineas T. Barnum Introduction by Terence Whalen
Pub Date: 2000

In this first reprinting in paperback of Barnum's “original” biography, it will be easy to understand how he was able to create the “Greatest Show on Earth,” a show as outrageous and entertaining as Barnum himself learn more...