Sacagawea: The Many Lives and Competing Myths of Lewis and Clark's Most Famous Guide
Sacagawea was kidnapped from her Shoshone people as a child, sold to a French-Canadian fur trader, and joined the Lewis and Clark expedition as a teenager carrying an infant on her back. She has since...
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Brigham Young: The House Painter From Vermont Who Built an Empire of 56 Wives
Brigham Young was a barely educated house painter from Vermont who took over a persecuted religious movement after its founder was murdered and transformed it into one of the most organized migrations...
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Saint Augustine: The Hedonist Who Mapped the Human Mind and Invented the Autobiography
Before Augustine became one of Christianity's most influential theologians, he was a partying philosophy student who kept a mistress for fifteen years, fathered an illegitimate son, and famously praye...
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John Calvin: The Fugitive Lawyer Who Wired the Psychological Foundations of Modern Capitalism
John Calvin trained as a lawyer, fled France as a religious fugitive, and built a theocratic city-state in Geneva that reshaped Western civilization. His theology of predestination, discipline, and wo...
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Jackie Robinson: The Fierce, Uncompromising Reality Behind Baseball's Integration Pioneer
Jackie Robinson is remembered as the man who quietly endured racist abuse to break baseball's color line. The real Robinson was anything but quiet. He was a fiercely competitive, outspoken, and confro...
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Thomas Aquinas: How the 'Dumb Ox' Mapped the Entire Universe With Pure Reason
Thomas Aquinas was so large and quiet that his classmates called him the Dumb Ox. His teacher Albert the Great replied that the bellowing of this ox would be heard throughout the world — and he was ri...
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Serena Williams: The Defiant Evolution of Tennis's Most Dominant Champion
Serena Williams won twenty-three Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other player in the Open Era, and she did it while being policed, penalized, and scrutinized in ways her white competitors nev...
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The Dalai Lama: The Secret Geopolitical Chess Game Behind the Spiritual Leader
The Dalai Lama is presented to the world as a spiritual leader above politics — a monk who preaches compassion and nonviolence. But behind that image lies a sophisticated geopolitical operator who nav...
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