Stars and shadows : the politics of interracial friendship from Jefferson to Obama / by Ambar, Saladin M.

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois and William James -- First ladies: Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt -- Veins: Ralph Ellison, Shirley Jackson, and Stanly Hyman -- Scripts: James Baldwin and Marlon Brando -- Mocambo: Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe -- Riverside: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Icons and intersectionalities: Angela David and Gloria Steinem -- A bestowal: Barack Obama and Joe Biden.…”
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The American story : conversations with master historians / by Rubenstein, David M.

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy -- Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement -- Robert A. …”

Lincoln's Enduring Legacy : Perspectives from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment.

Table of Contents: “…; Part II: Lincoln's Legacy with Great Thinkers and Leaders; 2 Tolstoy's Lincoln; 3 Mill and Lincoln on Liberty; 4 Theodore Roosevelt and the Heirs of Abraham Lincoln; 5 Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's Bridge to the World; 6 Lincoln's Impact on Martin Luther King Jr.; 7 Lincoln and the Idea of a Democratic Peace; Part III: Lincoln's Legacy and American Memory; 8 African American Memory and the Great Emancipator; 9 Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America; 10 Lincoln's Relationship with Gentility in America.…”
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Lincoln and the fight for peace / by Avlon, John P.

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