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  • A boys' life of Booker T. Washington

    by Walter Clinton Jackson ...
    A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington by Walter Clinton Jackson is an inspiring and accessible biography that introduces young readers to one of America’s most influential educators and leaders. Through engaging storytelling and vivid detail, Jackson traces Booker T. Washington’s remarkable journey—from his humble beginnings in slavery to his rise as the founder of Tuskegee Institute and a guiding ... Read more

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  • A boys' life of Booker T. Washington

    by Walter Clinton Jackson ...
    In "A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington," Walter Clinton Jackson skillfully weaves a narrative that captures the formative years of one of America's most influential African American leaders. Written primarily for a younger audience, Jackson employs an accessible and engaging literary style that combines biographical elements with inspirational anecdotes. The book situates Washington's life ... Read more

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    A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Walter Clinton Jackson ...
    Narrated by Harold Ogden, Jack Jackson, Barbra Thomas, Robert Bender ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War. He was born to a slave woman in Virginia, who then took him as a young boy to West Virginia after the emancipation. Booker became a leader in education heading the Tuskegee Institute for more than 30 years and working with other universities. He advocated a moderate approach to elevating ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Laughable Lyrics (Unabridged)

    by EDWARD LEAR ...
    Narrated by Clinton Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Hilarious, fantastic poems that I enjoyed reading to my two sons when they were little. Now I'd like to read them for anyone's children to enjoy listening to. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington (Unabridged)

    by Walter Clinton Jackson ...
    Narrated by Ruthie Beauchesne, Stephanie Foster, Marcus Prost ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    In the heart of the post-Civil War South, a young Booker T. Washington embarks on an extraordinary journey. Born into slavery, he faces adversity with unwavering determination. Through his experiences as a student, teacher, and leader, Washington's life becomes a testament to the power of education and the pursuit of equality. "A Boy's Life of Booker T. Washington" offers a captivating glimpse ... Read more

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    The Road to Freedom

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    The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" ( Newsday).Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, ... Read more

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  • Up From Slavery

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Named one of the best non-fiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library, Up from Slavery is the poignant telling, in plain language, of Booker T. Washington’s rise from slavery to become a preeminent advocate for civil rights of his time.Although Up from Slavery was initially criticized by African-American leaders for Washington’s perceived soft-pedalling of his message of racial ... Read more

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  • Up from Slavery

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    Booker T. Washington's classic memoir of enslavement, emancipation, and community advancement in the Reconstruction Era.Born into slavery on a tobacco farm in nineteenth-century Virginia, Booker T. Washington became one of the most powerful intellectuals of the Reconstruction Era. As president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, he advocated for the advancement of African Americans through ... Read more

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  • An Assassin in Utopia

    The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

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    This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield.It was heaven on earth—and, some whispered, the devil’s garden.Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at ... Read more

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  • The Thoreau You Don't Know

    What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant

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    Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan (whom the New York Times Book Review calls "an urban Thoreau") paints a dynamic picture of Thoreau as the ... Read more

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  • American Bloomsbury

    Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

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    Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden, and Little Women. Rendering in full color ... Read more

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  • An Imperfect God

    George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

    by Henry Wiencek ...
    The first biography of America's Founding Father and premier president to address his relationship to slavery.When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In his groundbreaking An Imperfect God, Henry Wiencek explores the Founding Father's engagement with slavery ... Read more

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