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In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife...
Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon
From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining "a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history," comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women's suffrage and against segregation and lynchings
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...The definitive biography of the Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of frontier lawman Wyatt Earp: “Splendid.” —The Wall Street Journal
For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of the Old West. Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. In this biography, the author of the acclaimed Sala’s