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  • Henry Kissinger

    Fred L. Israel

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1986)
    A biography of the German immigrant whose family came to the United States to escape Nazi persecution of Jews and who served this country as secretary of state under two Presidents.
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  • Kwame Nkrumah

    Douglas Kellner

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 1987)
    A biography of the controversial leader of Ghana who did much to improve the country newly independent in 1957, but whose unpopular methods caused his overthrow.

  • Margaret Thatcher

    Bernard Garfinkel

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, Jan. 1, 1985)
    A biography of Great Britain's first woman Prime Minister.
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  • Richard Nixon

    C. Peter Ripley

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 1987)
    Surveys the life of the only United States president to resign from office.
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  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

    James Cockcroft

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1988)
    Traces the life of the Shah of Iran, describes the reasons for his downfall, and assesses his influence on Iranian history
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  • Abraham Lincoln

    Roger Bruns; Arthur M. Jr. Schlesinger; Roger Burns

    Hardcover (Chelsea Ho, US, Aug. 16, 1986)
    Book by Roger Bruns; Arthur M. Jr. Schlesinger; Roger Burns

  • Andrew Jackson

    Herman J. Viola

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1986)
    A biography of Andrew Jackson, frontiersman, lawyer, and seventh President of the United States.
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  • Xerxes

    Morgan Llywelyn

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Aug. 1, 1987)
    A biography of the Persian king who devoted much of his reign to the conquest of Greece.
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  • Alexander Von Humboldt: Colossus of Exploration

    Ann Graham Gaines, Michael Collins

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Publications, Dec. 15, 1990)
    Book by Gaines, Ann Graham

  • Joan of Arc

    Susan Banfield

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1985)
    Chronicles the experiences of the peasant girl who led a French army against the English, was burned at the stake for witchcraft, and became a saint
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  • Attila

    Steven Bela Vardy

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Jan. 1, 1991)
    Surveys the life and times of Attila, King of the Huns, and discusses his image in myth and history.

  • Salvador Allende

    Hedda Garza

    Hardcover (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 1989)
    Follows the life of the man who served in Chile as the first Marxist to be freely elected to lead a nation of the Western Hemisphere, until military leaders overthrew his government in 1973.
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