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  • Amelia Earhart: Never in Man's Shadow

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Amelia Earhart. Earhart's disappearance has mesmerized the American public ever since her fateful around-the-world flight in 1937. However, the public's fascination with Lady Lindy began long before her disappearance as she ventured into what was an almost exclusively male domain: airplanes and flight, flaunting convention with panache. This is her story. ... Read more

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  • A Road Well Traveled: Profiles Of America's Great Automobile Pioneers

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. These pioneers lifted the veil of isolation that enveloped most pre-twentieth century Americans and made it possible for the average person to travel whenever and wherever he or she pleased. Automobiles changed the concept of transportation ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Will Keith Kellogg: The Breakfast King

    by Daniel Alef ...
    In 1894, Will K. Kellogg was experimenting with a more digestible form of wheat for patients at his brother John's Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan. Will mixed a wheat paste and accidentally let it stand overnight. In the morning he took the tempered remains, put them through a roller, and each grain emerged as a wide, thin flake. The flakes were a big hit with the patients -- C.W. Post, a ... Read more

    $2.05 CAD

  • Ray Kroc: McDonald's Mogul

    by Daniel Alef ...
    New Enhanced Digital EditionRay Kroc's remarkable rise to the top of the food chain--fast foods that is--began at a later age than most successful entrepreneurs at age 52. The former salesman of Multimixer milkshake machines heard about the McDonald brothers' restaurant in Southern California an eatery serving 15-cent hamburgers and 10-cent fries and making 40 milkshakes at a time. Sensing its ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • John Jacob Astor: America's First Millionaire

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of America's first millionaire, John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant who arrived in Manhattan with five English pounds in his pocket and amassed ownership of large swaths of Manhattan en route to becoming the largest and wealthiest landholder in New York. Astor established a major fur trading firm that extended its operations across the nation, helping blaze the Oregon Trail. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • George Eastman: The Kodak King

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Co. and inventor of the Kodak and Brownie cameras that revolutionized photography. In roughly 30 years beginning in 1880, Eastman changed the world of photography. Instead of cameras the size of microwave ovens, and the need for a tent, chemicals, glass plates and enormous patience, the camera alone priced at nearly 50, Eastman ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • J.P. Morgan: America's Greatest Banker

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were staunch opponents of a national bank. When President Jackson let the charter of the second bank lapse after 20 years it left the nation unprepared and powerless to respond quickly or effectively to major economic declines or emergencies. J. Pierpont Morgan became America's central bank initiating monetary policies that saved the nation from a severe ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Juan Terry Trippe: Founder of Pan Am and Commercial Aviation

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The growth of commercial air transportation and the number of passengers flying today can be laid at the feet of one of the great aviation pioneers, Juan Trippe, who began a crusade to create an air network that would link America to the world. The Yale graduate was absorbed by flight and airplanes. He established Pan American World Airways with a fleet of flying boats linking the U.S. Latin and ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist And 'President Maker'

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Thomas Nast has been called the greatest political cartoonist of all time. He was much more than that. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant attributed his presidential victory in the 1868 campaign "to the sword of (Indian-fighting Gen. Phil) Sheridan and the pencil of Nast." Nast could smite the most powerful titans with a single stroke of that pencil. New York's "Boss" Tweed would attest to this. He went to ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Daniel Webster: Statesman, Supreme Court Star And Orator

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Daniel Webster, a great statesmen, lawyer and public speaker. As an attorney, Daniel Webster represented some America's greatest tycoons and served as legal counsel in several cases that established important constitutional precedents that confirmed the authority of the Federal government. He also served as Secretary of State under several administrations and as U.S. ... Read more

    $3.42 CAD

  • Jack Knudsen Northrop: Aviation Pioneer And His Flying Wing

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Famed aviation pioneer Donald Douglas once said "Every airplane flying today has some Jack Northrop in it." Northrop was an aviation genius who was more interested in developing new technology than selling airplanes or making a fortune. The Northrop story is the story of American aviation history; he worked with the Loughead brothers (who changed their name to Lockheed) and Donald Douglas ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Margaret Tobin "Molly" Brown: Titanic Survivor Pursued Social Reforms

    by Daniel Alef ...
    New Enhanced Digital EditionAlthough Margaret "The Unsinkable Molly" Brown is well known for her heroic efforts in surviving the Titanic disaster that historic event doesn't begin to reveal the full measure of who she was or what she accomplished during her fascinating life. And Margaretthe name "Molly" was a Hollywood inventionwas the subject of as many myths as Aesop had fables. The real ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD