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10 best books like Women of Courage (Margaret Truman): Walking to Vermont, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop, Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Young Reader's Edition, Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War

Walking to Vermont
AuthorChristopher S. Wren
ISBN1416540121
A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from which he once filed.
Traveling with an unwieldy pack and a keen curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell...
The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition
AuthorGerda Lerner
ISBN0807855669
A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
AuthorLori D. Ginzberg
ISBN0809094932
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote—are now commonplace is in large part because she worked tirelessly to extend the nation’s promise of radical...
Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
AuthorGreg Lawrence
ISBN0312591934
I have always been interested in Jackie Kennedy as an editor at Doubleday - I worked for Doubleday too. I liked the idea of a mega-wealthy woman, at one time considered the most beautiful and high status woman in the world actually having a job.

This is how she gets her job as a commissioning editor....
On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet
AuthorLuree Miller
ISBN0898860970
It is a pleasure to review a book that tells the story of five women that explore the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet. Three of the women are English travelers, one is an American and one is a French scholar. These women were often dressed in traditional Victorian dress while climbing at 17,000 feet plus....
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story
AuthorOnnie Lee Logan
ISBN0452265568
I purchased this book because it was required for a doula training that I completed. At first I was skeptical that a memoir/oral history would be helpful, but I was pleasantly surprised. In fact, I think I gained more from this book than I did from any of the (excellent) "how-to" type books about labor and...
The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop
AuthorBill Jones
ISBN1845966066
The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared.

A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid...
Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances
AuthorScott T. Brown
ISBN0062015540
Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Young Reader's Edition
AuthorGregory Mone
ISBN0375987584
Rebecca Skloot in her debut science-based non-fiction deals with the journey of Henrietta Lacks, contributor to the famous He La cell line, to immortality. She also discusses the early stages of tissue culture, how the He La cells transformed the fields of cytology, cancer research, virology, genetics,...
Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
AuthorBruce Henderson
ISBN0061571369
From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds...
Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 2
AuthorRalph G. Martin
ISBN0135097606
If she had simply been the mother of Winston Churchill, her place in history would have been assured. But the Brooklyn-born Jennie was also the most fascinating and desirable woman of her age, the toast and the scandal of two continents throughout her long life.Volume II, THE DRAMATIC YEARS, tells the...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
AuthorJoan D. Hedrick
ISBN0195096398
"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject.... But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become...
Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci
AuthorGene Barretta
ISBN0805087036
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago! At once an artist, inventor, engineer,...
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
AuthorLinda Glaser
ISBN0547171846
Give me your tired,  your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
Who wrote these words?  And why?
 
In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that was to give voice to the Statue of Liberty.  Originally a gift...
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
AuthorPeter Collier
ISBN0786106808
This book covers the entire clan of the Rockefellers’ from the first John, born in 1839, to the publishing date of the book, 1976. It is quite an engrossing study of this family. Unlike other “celebrities”, the Rockefeller family is not marred by personal scandals (such as adulterous affairs)....
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
AuthorKathleen M. Blee
ISBN0520078764
Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In Women of the Klan, sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion...
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