Books in A Discovery Biography series

A profile of the woodsman, politician, and soldier who followed advice of his own motto, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."

A biography of the aviator who made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

The success story of an artist turned inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph

A biography of the fourth president's wife, whose accomplishments included saving valuable documents when the British burned the White House during the War of 1812

A biography of the pilot who became the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross

A biography of the founder of modern nursing

Traces the public and private life of the nation's first First Lady

Presents a biography of the general who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War

A biography of the West Point graduate who learned civil engineering "from the ground up" and supervised the completion of the Panama Canal.

A brief biography of the first admiral of the United States Navy

A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin who also developed basic ideas of mass production in the manufacture of weapons and other machines.

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