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e-books in Biographies & Memoirs category
by James Brough, Hedda Hopper - Doubleday & Co. , 1963
Hedda Hopper tells all, reveals the inner secrets, hidden fears, the behind-the-scene stories of Hollywood and the people who made it famous -- Hedda Hopper has known three generations of Hollywood; now she draws the curtain aside and tells it all.
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- Hourly History , 2016
Creativity is found in our very DNA, something not known to Leonardo da Vinci or anyone else who lived in his time. All he did was to uncover the hidden genius which lay within himself, and he used that inner genius to the very best of his abilities.
(7807 views)
by Robert Cooke - Smashwords , 2016
A struggling actor embarks on an unwise adventure into the Peruvian wilderness. His need to escape 'real life' sees him negotiating the towering Andes and sprawling Amazon basin, fending for himself in a land growing more dangerous by the minute.
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by Barry Jones - ANU Press , 2013
Mahatma Ghandi to Madonna, Jesus Christ to Jimmy Carter from a Non-American and Non-European veiwpoint. Jones is an Australian politician, writer and lawyer, educated at Melbourne University, the first to raise public awareness of global warming ...
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by Morris Bishop - Minton, Balch , 1928
Odd ducks, Limited! That is what this book is about. Twelve biographies of people who are different from the rest of us. Different, does not mean evil or overly kinky. There are two sides to 'Normal': The abnormally good and the abnormally bad.
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by Jim West - Project Gutenberg , 2013
At the age of one I contracted Polio. Suddenly, a world of infinite possibilities collapsed in upon me. Everything was now a struggle: breathing, lifting my arms, learning to walk. Nothing came easily. And the suffering wasn't just physical.
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by Nellie Bly , 1887
The book comprised Nellie Bly's reportage for the New York World in 1887 while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
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by Anton Schindler - Henry Colburn Pub. , 1841
The life of Beethoven, including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works. The work was first published in 1840 and had a great deal of influence on later Beethoven biography.
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by Wallace E. Baker - A. and C. Boni , 1913
The body of a well-dressed young man was found off Manhattan Beach, Sept. 28th. In his pockets a torn photograph of Strindberg and receipts for three registered letters were found. These receipts were traced to Mr. Herts and to friends in Toronto.
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson , 1850
Representative Men includes seven lectures on great men -- Plato, Swedenborg, Montaige, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us.
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by Horace William Petherick - Project Gutenberg , 2011
This is a biographical sketch of the great Cremonese master, expressed in a manner interesting and instructive as possible. The author abstained from using technical terms not readily comprehended by a reader coming newly to the subject.
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by Romain Rolland - Duffield & Company , 1915
The life of Michelangelo offers a striking example of the influence that a great man can have on his time. Michelangelo burst like a thunder-storm into the heavy, overcharged sky of Florence. He captured painting, sculpture, architecture and poetry.
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by Thomas Wright - Project Gutenberg , 2003
Sir Richard Burton was an English explorer, writer, soldier, ethnologist, poet and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
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- Advameg, Inc , 2009
Notable figures from many cultures from antiquity to the present day: Archimedes, Bach, Chaplin, Copernicus, Coppola, Dean, Descartes, Eastwood, Einstein, Fitzgerald, Freud, Gorbachev, Hemingway, Luther, Ming, Picasso, Russell, Tutankhamen, etc.
(19463 views)
by John T. Flynn - Mises Institute , 2007
The classic and extraordinary full biography of John D. Rockefeller. Flynn shows how Rockefeller employed the tools of capitalism to become enormously rich, and how this unleashed the most unexpected backlash from anti-capitalists of all sorts.
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by John T. Flynn - Ludwig von Mises Institute , 2007
First-class business history, the story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of wealth in history: Jacob Fugger, John Law, Nathan Rothschild, Thomas Gresham, Robert Owen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller.
(20490 views)