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1) Barack Obama
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English
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"A biography about President Barack Obama, written for preschoolers"--
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English
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"One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business."--Amazon.
3) Donald Trump
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Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Donald Trump. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Abraham Lincoln didn't look like a president. He didn't always act like a president, either--he liked to wrestle with his sons and tell jokes. But he always fought for fairness, freedom, and unity. --Publisher
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--which sent more than a thousand...
7) Grant
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English
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"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Who Is Jimmy Carter? details the entire life of Jimmy Carter, beginning with his 1924 birth in Plains, Georgia. Readers will learn about his life as a peanut farmer, a Sunday school teacher, a president, a Nobel Prize winner, and more.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Description
A small toy boy from Illinois with big dreams, began his rise to public life in sports broadcasting and then as a star of film and television. But it was during his years in Hollywood as president of the Screen Actors Guild that he discovered the two great passions of his life: politics and his soul mate, Nancy Davis. This candid and intimate portrait captures the Reagan's' inspiring journey, historic partnership and touching love story.
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