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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
An autobiography
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grand...
Lives
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
Diary
by Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...
Abraham Lincoln
by Carl Sandburg
IN THE year 1776, when the 13 American colonies gave to the world their famous Declaration of Independence, there was a ...
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
APART FROM LIFE, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father be...
Founding Brothers
by Joseph J. Ellis
THE MOST succinct version of the story might go like this: On the morning of July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr and Alexander Ham...
Churchill
by Roy Jenkins
CHURCHILL'S PROVENANCE WAS aristocratic, indeed ducal, and some have seen this as the most important key to his whole ca...
Abraham Lincoln
by Lord Charnwood
THE subject of this memoir is revered by multitudes of his countrymen as the preserver of their commonwealth.
