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1) Becoming
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A book that explores the seemingly magical world of Jackie Onassis' youth, her fairy-tale marriage to a wealthy and handsome senator and presidential candidate and her astonishing transformation into a deft political wife and unique first lady also explores what the author asserts was Jackie's 31-year struggle with PTSD after the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces battled the Japanese for control of the region, Eleanor was...
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, telling of her achievements as First Lady, co-director of the U.S. Office of Civilian Defense, and U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become,...
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