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Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the incomparable New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Tamara Shopsin, a debut novel about a NYC printer repair technician who comes of age alongside the Apple computer-featuring original artistic designs by the author"--
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First Pelican Pouch edition.
Language
English
Description
The novel that inspired a young Ronald Reagan-and left him with "an abiding belief in the triumph of good over evil."
"I found a role model in that traveling printer whom Harold Bell Wright had brought to life. He set me on a course I've tried to follow even unto this day. I shall always be grateful." -Ronald Reagan, in a letter to Harold B. Wright's daughter-in-law in 1984
After reading this book at age eleven, Ronald Reagan experienced...
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Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us -- an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist, and the most prominent celebrity of the 18th century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions,...
10) Them: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
This combination of superbly developed characters, a realistic story line, and descriptions that profoundly capture the essence of this country's urban experience—in black and white—is the formula for the making of this truly great American novel.
14) Autobiography
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Language
English
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Description
Franklin's narrative of his life as a citizen of Philadelphia is supplemented by an account of his later years
Author
Language
English
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Description
Many consider Franklin the most fascinating American man who ever lived. A scientist, businessman, diplomat, author, inventor, philosopher and politician, he is America's original Renaissance man. His remarkable and varied accomplishments include the discovery of electricity and the modernization of the postal system. Brilliant and bawdy, a master statesman and a cultural icon, Franklin was so important and popular in his day that, according to the...
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