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Jesse Jackson

the life and pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
1996
Examines the life, career, and accomplishments of the civil rights activist and politician, Jesse Jackson, from his childhood in North Carolina through his years in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Big man on campus

John Thompson and the Georgetown Hoyas
1991
A portrait of the basketball coach of the Georgetown Hoyas and of his team members.

Simon and Garfunkel

old friends
1991
Biographies of Simon and Garfunkel how they grew up together, made music together, and then grew apart.

My prison without bars

2004
Baseball legend Pete Rose shares the story of his life and career, and answers questions about his gambling, his time in prison on tax charges, and his banishment from the game and the Hall of Fame in 1989.

Positively 4th street

the lives and times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fari?a, and Richard Fari?a
2001
Examines the lives of folk musicians Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Joan's sister Mimi Baez Fari?a, and Mimi's writer husband Richard, and discusses the impact of the four young people on the sound and style of the 1960s.

Pete Rose "Charlie Hustle"

1983
A biography of the baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies whose goal is to break Ty Cobb's all-time major league record for base hits.

Jesse Jackson

a rainbow leader
1987
Examines the life of the black leader and civil rights worker from his childhood to the present, describing how he achieved his goal of obtaining more rights for blacks.

Jesse Jackson

a voice for change
1989
Biography of Jesse Jackson, discussing his political leadership and civil rights work on behalf of African Americans.

Images from the otherland

memoir of a United States Marine Corps artillery officer in Vietnam
1995
A former artillery officer recounts his personal experiences as a Marine in the Vietnam War.

Prism of the night

a biography of Anne Rice
1991

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