Albert Einstein A Biography
BY MILTON MELTZER Albert Einstein spent his life asking questions and searching for answers. In 1921 Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was not only a scientist, he was also a peace activist and a fighter for social justice. In this revealing biography-featuring black-and-white photographs-esteemed children's nonfiction author Milton Meltzer explores the life and work of one of the greatest scientists of all time.
Holiday House 2008 32 PP. Cloth $4.50 (in stock) Buy
BY HENRY MAYER Mayer maintains that William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), a self-made man of scanty formal education who founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, not only served as the catalyst for the abolition of slavery, but inspired two generations of activists in civil rights and the women's movement. Through Garrison, tragically torn between pacifism and abolitionist advocacy, we also meet a rich pageant of great 19th- century historical figures, including Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams and Harriet Beecher Stowe. A consequential biography.
St Martins Griffin 2000 702 PP. Paper $8.00 (in stock) Buy
American Connections The Founding Fathers. Networked.
All On Fire William Lloyd Garrison And The Abolition Of Slavery
BY JAMES BURKE Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are often surprising and always fascinating. Burke turns the signers from historical icons into flesh-and-blood people: Some were shady financial manipulators, most were masterful political operators, a few were good human beings, and some were great men. The network that links them
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