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Description not available.Presents the exploits of the popular British bubblegum group, the Spice Girls, covering their concerts, meetings with world leaders and royalty, and personal histories
PUBLISHER: Chelsea House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Jack Welch Speaks by Janet C. Lowe
Description not available.A chronicle of the voice and vision of General Electric's CEO and Chariman of the Board Jack Welch--featuring quotes from articles, newscasts, and interviews--imparts a truer sense of this intensely private man and how he created one of the country's most profitable companies. Reprint. AUTHOR: Janet C. Lowe
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Jefferson Davis, Confederate President by Herman Hattaway, Richard E. Beringer
He was one of the most embattled heads of state in American history. Charged with building a new nation while waging a war for its very independence, he accepted his responsibilities reluctantly but carried them out with a fierce dedication to his ideals. Those efforts ultimately foundered on the shoals of Confederate defeat, leaving Davis stranded in public memory as both valiant leader and desolate loser. Now two renowned Civil War historians take a new and closer look at Davis's presidency. In the process, they provide a clearer image of his leadership and ability to handle domestic, diplomatic, and military matters under the most trying circumstances--without the considerable industrial and population resources of the North and without the formal recognition of other nations. Hattaway and Beringer show us a man so respected that northern colleagues regretted his departure from the U.S. Senate, but so bent on Southern independence he was willing to impose unthinkable burdens on his citizens--an apologist for slavery who was committed to state rights, even while growing nationalism in his new country called for a stronger central government. In assessing Davis's actual administration of the Confederate state, the authors analyze the Confederate government's constitution, institutions, infrastructure, and cabinet-level administrators. They also integrate events of Davis's presidency with the ongoing war as it encroached upon the South, offering a panoramic view of military strategy as seen from the president's office. They tell how Davis reacted to the outcomes of key battles and campaigns in order to assess his leadership abilities, his relations with civilian and military authorities, and--his own personal competency notwithstanding--his poor judgment in selecting generals. Rich in detail and exhilaratingly told with generous selections from Davis's own letters and speeches, Hattaway and Beringer provide the most insightful account available of the Co AUTHOR: Herman Hattaway, Richard E. Beringer
PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | New Bach Reader by Hans T. David
Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the BACH READER established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In THE NEW BACH READERS, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence. AUTHOR: Hans T. David
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Carolyn L. Karcher, Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs, L. Maria Child, Nell Irvin Painter
This classic memoir of slave life, written by a highly-literate North Carolina slave, was first published at the beginning of the Civil War when Jacobs had escaped to the North and begun campaigning for abolition. Her narrative focused especially clearly on the ways that slavery degraded women through sexual abuse and the separation of mothers from their children. AUTHOR: Carolyn L. Karcher, Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs, L. Maria Child, Nell Irvin Painter
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Martin Luther King by Vincent Harding
In these eloquent essays, the noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the meaning of his life today. Many of these reflections are inspired by the ambiguous message surrounding the official celebration of King's birthday. Harding sees a tendency to freeze an image of King from the period of his early leadership of the Civil Rights movement, the period culminating with his famous I Have a Dream Speech . Harding writes passionately of King's later years, when his message and witness became more radical and challenging to the status quo at every level. In those final years before his assassination King took up the struggle against racism in the urban ghettos of the North; he became an eloquent critic of the Vietnam war; he laid the foundations for the Poor People's Campaign. This widening of his message and his tactics entailed controversy even within his own movement. But they point to a consistent expansion of his critique of American injustice and his solidarity with the oppressed. It was this spirit that brought him to Memphis in 1968 to lend his support to striking sanitation workers. It was there that he paid the final price for his prophetic witness. AUTHOR: Vincent Harding
PUBLISHER: Orbis Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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