Autobiography
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332252
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814332245
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814348895

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Getting to the Heart of the Matter
My 36 Years in the Senate
Former senator Carl Levin’s memoir demonstrates the value of pragmatism, empathy, and compromise.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814348390
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348406
Communings of the Spirit
Exploring the Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1942-1951
Mordecai Kaplan's personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348253
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814347676
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814347683
Invisible Ink
The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814347591
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814347607
eBOOK
ISBN: 0814347592
Eli's Story
A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life
Biography of a Jewish doctor who survived and triumphed over the horrors of the Holocaust.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340219
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344941
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340226
Toast of the Town
The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson
Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343876
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814343883
Harry Bertoia, Sculptor
The first book devoted to the life and work of a contemporary Italian-born American artist Harry Bertoia.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343722
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814343715
Communings of the Spirit
Exploring the Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 19341941
Selections from the diary of Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionism in America, detailing a provocative firsthand account of Jewish life in America and of the mind of a very challenging thinker.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814341612
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814341629
eBOOK
ISBN: 0814341616
Friends, Families & Forays
Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford
An illustrated collection of essays about the various people, events, and experiments from Henry Ford’s lifetime.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331095
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336847
Vladimir Jabotinsky's Story of My Life
Vladimir Jabotinsky’s famous autobiography, published in English for the first time.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341384
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341391

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The People's Lawyer
The Life and Times of Frank J. Kelley, the Nation's Longest-Serving Attorney General
The nation’s longest-serving attorney general tells the story of a life that spanned two centuries and a career that helped transform consumer protection and public interest law.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814341322
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341339

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Race and Remembrance
A Memoir
Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814333709
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814337493
Pilgrim Journey
The intimate and detailed autobiography of Naomi Long Madgett, award-winning poet and poet laureate of Detroit.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780916418977
Inside a Gestapo Prison
The Letters of Krystyna Wituska, 1942-1944
A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332948
Ebook
ISBN: 9780814338872
And Life Is Changed Forever
Holocaust Childhoods Remembered
Looking at the Holocaust through the eyes of children who lived through it, this collection offers an inspiring assortment of perspectives on survival.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331736
Communings of the Spirit
Exploring the Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1913-1934
Selections from the diary of the founder of Reconstructionism in America, covering Kaplan's early years as a rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and community leader.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814331163
A Little History of My Forest Life
An Indian-White Autobiography by Eliza Morrison
Written in 1894, this autobiography tells the story of a Chippewa-Scots-French woman from Madeline Island in Lake Superior.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780970260628
The Diary of Bishop Frederic Baraga
First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan
An introductory biography of Baraga, lengthy passages from his letters, vignettes about persons in the text and a comprehensive bibliography yield an in-depth portrait of mid-nineteenth century life, especially in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329993
Looking Beyond Race
The Life of Otis Milton Smith
In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician, and eventual president of General Motors.
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814329399
Negroes with Guns
A southern black community's struggle to defend itself against racist groups.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814327142