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Chronicling the lives of the most important people of recent times, these books give students a powerful resource for understanding how their world came to be what it is today. Enriched with historic photos of the life and times of the people being profiled, and with excerpts from primary source documents, this series will inspire critical thinking and further research, and motivate additional reading. Each book is more than just the story of an individual. It is a powerful social history of the world one person was born into.