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What can we learn from the lives of important historical figures? In this engaging collection of biographical essays, Spencer Walpole explores the lives and accomplishments of some of history's most interesting figures, including Napoleon, Wellington, and Charles James Fox.

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What can we learn from the lives of important historical figures? In this engaging collection of biographical essays, Spencer Walpole explores the lives and accomplishments of some of history's most interesting figures, including Napoleon, Wellington, and Charles James Fox.

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview