THE Lives to Remember SERIES
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Lives To Remember is a series of concise biographies introducing the world’s great men and women.
HELEN KELLER by J. W. and Anne Tibble
NOBODY STOPS CUSHING by Frank Cetin
ISAAC NEWTON by Patrick Moore
FRIDTJOF NANSEN Arctic Explorer by Francis Noel-Baker
DOUGLAS MacARTHUR by Alfred Steinberg
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT by Alfred Steinberg
WOODROW WILSON by Alfred Steinberg
DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX by Gertrude Norman
MADAME CURIE by Robin McKown
ALBERT EINSTEIN by Arthur Beckhard
ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Manuel Komroff
CHARLES STEINMETZ by Henry Thomas
DANIEL WEBSTER by Alfred Steinberg
ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD by Alfred Steinberg
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by Henry Thomas
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE by Henry Thomas
ULYSSES S. GRANT by Henry Thomas
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT by Henry Thomas
BILLY MITCHELL by Arch Whitehouse
GEORGE GERSHWIN by Edward Jablonski
THOMAS PAINE by Robin McKown
JOHN MARSHALL by Alfred Steinberg
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by William Wise
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN by Robin McKown
HARRY S. TRUMAN by Alfred Steinberg
JOHN J. PERSHING by Arch Whitehouse
THADDEUS LOWE by Lydel Sims
SOCRATES by Robert Silverberg
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE by Winifred E. Wise
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Recent titles in the LIVES TO REMEMBER series include:
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by William Wise JOHN MARSHALL by Alfred Steinberg THOMAS PAINE by Robin McKown GEORGE GERSHWIN by Edward Jablonski BILLY MITCHELL by Arch Whitehouse FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT by Henry Thomas ULYSSES S. GRANT by Henry Thomas WOODROW WILSON by Alfred Steinberg DOUGLAS MacARTHUR by Alfred Steinberg
THE AUTHOR
Robin McKown was born in Denver and attended the University of Colorado, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois. She sold her first one-act play to a literary magazine while she was still in college, and later won a drama prize at the University of Colorado. She has worked in public relations, with a literary agency, and prepared radio scripts. Mrs. McKown is the author of Thomas Paine and Marie Curie, both in the Lives to Remember series, as well as Publicity Girl and Foreign Service Girl. She makes her home in New York City.
Other Books by Robin McKown
THOMAS PAINE
MARIE CURIE
FOREIGN SERVICE GIRL
PUBLICITY GIRL
ROOSEVELT’S AMERICA
WASHINGTON’S AMERICA
THE FABULOUS ISOTOPES
GIANT OF THE ATOM: Ernest Rutherford
SHE LIVED FOR SCIENCE: Irène Joliot-Curie
JANINE
THE ORDEAL OF ANNE DEVLIN
AUTHOR’S AGENT
PAINTER OF THE WILD WEST: Frederick Remington
PIONEERS IN MENTAL HEALTH
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Few men have more claims to greatness than Benjamin Franklin. He was in his long lifetime, writer, editor and publisher, scientist and inventor, propagandist for the cause of the American colonies, statesman, diplomat. He was a wit and a humorist, a loyal friend and a good family man. From his birth in Boston as the son of a poor candlemaker to his election by Congress as America’s first ambassador to France and his subsequent return to the United States, the author traces the fascinating development of an impetuous and saucy youth who became a beloved man both on his native soil and throughout the world.