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  • Booker T. Washington: The Architect of Progressive Education by Generals, Donald, Jr.
    Donald Jr. Generals

    Booker T. Washington: The Architect of Progressive Education

    Booker T. Washington: The Architect of Progressive Education unveils Washington's contributions to the development and history of progressive education. It exposes the ignorance of his critics and the distortions that have defined his legacy.The book places Washington into the appropriate historical context, calling into...
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  • Up from Slavery by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    Up from Slavery

    Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work...
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  • The Log College: Biographical Sketches of William Tennent and His Students by Alexander, Archibald
    Archibald Alexander

    The Log College: Biographical Sketches of William Tennent and His Students

    "The Log College is biographical writing at is best. William Tennent's efforts to train young men (including his four sons) for Presbyterian ministry, which eventuated in building a simple log building in 1735 that became known as the Log College, makes for a fascinating...
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  • Gift of Gratitude by Hallinan, Claire E.
    Claire E. Hallinan

    Gift of Gratitude

    Have you ever thought about how your seemingly insignificant life events have formed who you are? How intriguing it is to look back and discover how your current life path is directly or indirectly connected to your past Emerging present moments and fading past...
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  • I am A failure by Sharma, Akhil
    Akhil Sharma

    I am A failure

    Have you experienced failures in your life? Is your startup business facing a downturn? Is your dream partner telling you she hates you? Don't despair. Failure encages us all. Akhil, born with a plastic spoon in India, was specially designed for all failures life...
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  • Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War by Franklin, H. Bruce
    H. Bruce Franklin

    Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War

    Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America's victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the...
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  • An Uncommon Journey: Leadership Lessons From A Preschool Teacher Who Became A University President by Raines, Shirley
    Shirley Raines

    An Uncommon Journey: Leadership Lessons From A Preschool Teacher Who Became A University President

    Dr. Shirley Raines, now a much sought after speaker, consultant, and author, earned her way from a humble farm in Tennessee to the office of the President of the University of Memphis as the first woman president of that institution. In this frank and...
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  • From a Barnyard to a Schoolyard: My Journey as a High School Principal by Cummins, Terry
    Terry Cummins

    From a Barnyard to a Schoolyard: My Journey as a High School Principal

    What's a principal to do when forty-one snakes are turned loose near the lockers, a perky cheerleader gets pregnant, star athletes fail English, and one teacher tells students God is dead and another begins each class with a prayer?Terry Cummins spent most of his...
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  • Master of the Mysteries: New Revelations on the Life of Manly Palmer Hall by Sahagun, Louis
    Louis Sahagun

    Master of the Mysteries: New Revelations on the Life of Manly Palmer Hall

    "Louis Sahagun's gripping biography is an insightful look at the life and times of one of the last century's most important mystical thinkers."--The Fortean TimesIn 1919, a Canadian teenager with a sixth grade education arrived by train to the wilds of Los Angeles. Within...
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  • The Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde by Topping, Robert W.
    Robert W. Topping

    The Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde

    This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines...
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  • Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy by Burgess, Colin
    Colin Burgess

    Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy

    On January 28, 1986, NASA space shuttle orbiter Challenger lifted off into the clear blue skies over Florida on mission STS-51L, carrying a crew of seven, including teacher Christa McAuliffe. Just seventy-three seconds into the launch, a massive explosion tore Challenger apart. This newly...
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  • From the East End to the West Coast and Halfway Back: The story of a boy from the East End of London and his journey to a successful life in the Unite by Leaney, John
    John Leaney

    From the East End to the West Coast and Halfway Back: The story of a boy from the East End of London and his journey to a successful life in the Unite

    John Leaney is the son of factory workers with deep ties to London's east end. He was reared in Dagenham, home of the Ford Motor Company, who employed his father as a lorry driver. His mother worked in a wood factory. At age eleven...
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  • Stegomyia: The Story of My Life by Adeniyi, William Kunle
    William Kunle Adeniyi

    Stegomyia: The Story of My Life

    William Kunle Adeniyi was born into obscurity in a Nigerian world in which only the fittest survived. Education was a weapon of survival. However, he realized it was one commodity that seemed beyond the reach of him as an orphan. Stegomyia is the story...
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  • Because Words Matter by Satyarthi, Kailash
    Kailash Satyarthi

    Because Words Matter

    This book offers the guidance and teachings of Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi. He has waged a peaceful struggle to stop children from being exploited as labour instead of being sent to school. The power of simplicity and humility in his messages has transformed the...
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  • Me and the Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood by Bryce, Herb
    Herb Bryce

    Me and the Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood

    Chock-full of unbelievable stories, Me and the Cottonwood Tree will enchant readers with the hilarious misadventures of young Herb growing up during some of the most pivotal times in America.From getting stuck in the family outhouse, to buying a donkey as a pet, to...
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  • Get Your Elbow Off the Horn: Stories Through the Years Volume 10 by Gannon, Jack R.
    Jack R. Gannon

    Get Your Elbow Off the Horn: Stories Through the Years Volume 10

    Get Your Elbow Off the Horn is a collection of interactions and observations written by Jack R. Gannon, a lifelong advocate for the Deaf community. Warm and amusing, Gannon's stories begin with his rural childhood in the Ozarks and continue through his experiences as...
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  • Deception: A true story about wounded souls, who extrapolated a murder conspiracy, from the ambiguous moments that occurred durin by William, Roberts G.
    Roberts G. William

    Deception: A true story about wounded souls, who extrapolated a murder conspiracy, from the ambiguous moments that occurred durin

    In November of 1977, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada left this mortal world surrounded by hundreds of his beloved disciples. The formal cause for his departure was a heart attack complicated by kidney failure and diabetes. Twenty years later a rumor began...
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  • Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian by McKendrick, Neil
    Neil McKendrick

    Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian

    Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 - 2001) was a great British historian.This is a very personal account written by Neil McKendrick, a fellow historian, a fellow Master of a Cambridge college and one his oldest and closest friendsAuthor: Neil McKendrickISBN-10: 1913087220ISBN-13: 9781913087227Publisher: Edward...
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  • A Child Is a Poem You Learn By Heart: A Memoir in Verse by Whitehurst, Paulette
    Paulette Whitehurst

    A Child Is a Poem You Learn By Heart: A Memoir in Verse

    Awarded Third Place by the NATIONAL Federation of Press Women Communications Contest, 2021 for Non-fiction for Adult Readers, Autobiography or MemoirAwarded FIRST PLACE by Virginia Professional Communicators, 2021, for Non-fiction for adult readers, Memoir-.South Carolina, 1940s. A farmer's daughter marries her father's hired hand...
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  • Jeffanoo: Stories from My Life by Rose, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Rose

    Jeffanoo: Stories from My Life

    Meet Jeff...gold velour bell-bottom hip-huggers on the first day of school. Getting drunk, not play drunk. A 1969 rock festival in Plumpton, England. Meets his first love at a sensitivity training group. Tries his hand at poker in Las Vegas. Employment as a longshoreman,...
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  • Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman by Harris, Sheena
    Sheena Harris

    Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman

    Born enslaved in 1861, by 1892 Margaret Murray Washington of Macon, Mississippi, married the twice-widowed race leader Booker T. Washington and joined the ranks of the rising black middle class. While one cannot discount the accomplishments of her storied husband, Washington's own successes warrant...
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  • New Beginnings by Keelen, Debra H.
    Debra H. Keelen

    New Beginnings

    Everyone has a gift. This book is the result of how God intervened in my life and used people to get me to use my God-given gift of teaching. My book is the voice of my students, family, and colleagues. I am a humbled...
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  • A Beard Cut Short: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Professor Clipped by a Slip of #MeToo by Neff, Todd
    Todd Neff

    A Beard Cut Short: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Professor Clipped by a Slip of #MeToo

    John Rubadeau's long, white beard; homeless-guy wardrobe; and penchant for dirty jokes belied his lofty status as one of the most popular professors ever at the University of Michigan. He taught writing in Ann Arbor for more than 30 years. The cover of his...
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  • Creatively: A Memoir of Plays, Films, Musicals, Commentaries, and Books by Hopkins, Jeff
    Jeff Hopkins

    Creatively: A Memoir of Plays, Films, Musicals, Commentaries, and Books

    This is a memoir from the point of view of a working-class boy from East Fremantle, in Western Australia who, in his formative and teenage years, had a love of the theatre and performing. Later he went on to script and produce films. Then...
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  • Trying to Fix Stupid: The Autobiography of a Maverick Professor by Newman, Gerald
    Gerald Newman

    Trying to Fix Stupid: The Autobiography of a Maverick Professor

    A provocative and often hilarious look at teaching -- a beautifully written book that will resonate with anyone who's been a teacher or been taught in America.Gerald Newman, acclaimed author of The Rise of English Nationalism and holder of the Kent State University Distinguished...
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  • Dutch Mandarin: The Life and Work of Robert Hans van Gulik (First English) by Barkman, C. D.
    C. D. Barkman

    Dutch Mandarin: The Life and Work of Robert Hans van Gulik (First English)

    Diplomat, Asian scholar, author, calligrapher, polyglot, polymath, passionate lover of life in all its forms, Robert van Gulik researched and wrote prolifically on a diverse range of Asian subjects, such as--but certainly not limited to--Chinese scroll mounting, sexual life in ancient China and the...
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  • The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship by Ronnick, Michele Valerie
    William Sanders Scarborough

    Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

    This illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African Americans, Scarborough...
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  • Snapshots from Memory: The Autobiography of a Greenock Academy Schoolboy by Johnson, Peter Joseph
    Peter Joseph Johnson

    Snapshots from Memory: The Autobiography of a Greenock Academy Schoolboy

    AN INSPIRATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING AUTOBIOGRAPHYAuthor, artist and retired vice principal, Jo Johnson was born and brought up in the leafy suburbs of Greenock in the West of Scotland. Educated at Greenock Academy until the age of fourteen, he experienced a profound culture shock when...
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  • My Journey Through Life by Wozuzu Acholonu, Alexander D.
    Alexander D. Wozuzu Acholonu

    My Journey Through Life

    My Journey Through Life critically records and celebrates the life of Chief Sir Prof. Alexander D. Wozuzu Acholonu's earliest beginnings through his educational struggles accentuating challenges he has faced and how he has been able to surmount them; Professor Acholonu's career as an academician...
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  • Sketches from a Quaker's Moscow Journal by Cockrell, Patricia
    Patricia Cockrell

    Sketches from a Quaker's Moscow Journal

    The iron curtain was giving way or at least becoming permeable in the age of perestroika. After writing letters for 20 years while teaching Russian at two schools in Exeter, Patricia was at last successful in setting up an exchange with a school in...
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  • The Boy from Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education by King, Cecil
    Cecil King

    The Boy from Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education

    A powerful memoir from an Indigenous educator. "Through my eyes, my community was creative, innovative and self-sufficient. In this remote northern traditional First Nation society, the skills, knowledge and abilities that the community needed to survive were all there. . . . The stories...
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  • A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb by Webb, Walter Prescott
    Walter Prescott Webb

    A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb

    Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books--but for decades the autobiography he'd written late in life sat largely undisturbed among his papers. Webb's remarkable story appears here in print for the first...
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  • The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and Nasa's Challenger Disaster by Cook, Kevin
    Kevin Cook

    The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and Nasa's Challenger Disaster

    Winner of the American Astronautical Society's 2021 Eugene M. Emme Award The untold story of a national trauma--NASA's Challenger explosion--and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the starsYou've seen the pictures. You...
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  • Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic by Fussell, Paul
    Paul Fussell

    Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic

    In this highly praised autobiographical work, the author of "The Great War" and "Modern Memory" recounts his own experience of combat in World War II and how it became a determining force in his life. "Doing Battle" is at once a summing-up of one...
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  • John BASCOM and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea by Hoeveler, J. David
    J. David Hoeveler

    John BASCOM and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea

    In the Progressive Era of American history, the state of Wisconsin gained national attention for its innovative economic and political reforms. Amidst this ferment, the "Wisconsin Idea" was popularized--the idea that a public university should improve the lives of people beyond the borders of...
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  • A Texas Education: Learning (And Unlearning) in a Strangely Familiar Land by Segady, Tom
    Tom Segady

    A Texas Education: Learning (And Unlearning) in a Strangely Familiar Land

    This is a book about personal experience, but it is not a memoir. While experiencing threatening situations and circumstances that define one's life, the author invites encounters with others to teach him important life's lessons, while in fact he has been a college teacher...
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  • Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot by Unger, Harlow Giles
    Harlow Giles Unger

    Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot

    Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man, shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans. --Washington Times Noah Webster The Life and Times of an American Patriot ""More than...
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  • Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City by Lewis, Pamela
    Pamela Lewis

    Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City

    Teaching should never be color-blind. In her compelling and unapologetic memoir, Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City, teacher and writer Pamela Lewis urges her fellow educators not only to acknowledge race but to consider both the...
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  • Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father by Dungan, Nicholas
    Nicholas Dungan

    Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father

    You won't find his portrait on our currency anymore and his signature isn't penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was the first president of the council of New York University and his...
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  • The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship by Ronnick, Michele Valerie
    William Sanders Scarborough

    The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

    An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon. "If W.E.B Du Bois, the antecedent of today's black public intellectuals, himself has an antecedent, it is W....
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  • Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina Under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase by Covington, Howard E.
    Howard E. Covington

    Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina Under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase

    In June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina. The two were a study in contrasts. Graham was a southerner whose father had worn Confederate gray. Chase was a New Englander and...
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  • Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice by García, Mario T.
    Mario T. Garc?

    Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice

    In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal...
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  • Makarenko, His Life and Work: Articles, Talks and Reminiscences by Makarenko, Anton
    Anton Makarenko

    Makarenko, His Life and Work: Articles, Talks and Reminiscences

    Anton Makarenko's book The Road to Life has been read by millions of people in fifty-four languages. In the Soviet Union alone it has run into eighty-five editions totalling two and a half million copies. The name of this distinguished educator, who broke new...
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  • I'm Already Professionally Developed: Straight from the Teacher's Desk by B, Eddie
    Eddie B

    I'm Already Professionally Developed: Straight from the Teacher's Desk

    Eddie Brown found himself in a spot most teachers know all too well: Some days he loved his job, and other days he hated it. Teaching gave him money to take care of his family and a sense of fulfillment. But the culture, the...
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  • A True Immigration Success Story by Helwing, Eva
    Eva Helwing

    A True Immigration Success Story

    A True Immigration Success Story: From WWII Refuge to Principal at Inter-American begins with the unique journey of a young ethnic German girl born in Hungary who comes to America with her brother Adam and sister Mary to start a new life. Eva Helwing's...
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  • From the Barrio to the Beach by Hernandez, Rey
    Rey Hernandez

    From the Barrio to the Beach

    From the Barrio to the Beach is a novel about two public schools that are separated by a short fifteen mile stretch of Interstate 5. In his novel Rey Hernandez shares an incredible and revealing look at the challenges educators face as they strive...
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  • Off to a Good Start: A Baby Boomer's Memoir by Rundall, Thomas
    Thomas Rundall

    Off to a Good Start: A Baby Boomer's Memoir

    A Surprising JourneyThis memoir is about my surprising journey from a dirt road on the outskirts of Yuma, Arizona to an endowed professorship at the world's greatest public university, and the nine life lessons I learned along the way.I was born a Baby Boomer...
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  • Just Another Immigrant's Son: A Memoir on the Otology Renaissance by Paparella, Michael
    Michael Paparella

    Just Another Immigrant's Son: A Memoir on the Otology Renaissance

    Michael Paparella is born on the eve of the banking crisis in 1933. His immigrant parents struggle to raise their family in a city embroiled in striking, race riots, and the deepest economic depression this country has ever known. Although neither has finished primary...
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  • A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb by Webb, Walter Prescott
    Walter Prescott Webb

    A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb

    Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books--but for decades the autobiography he'd written late in life sat largely undisturbed among his papers. Webb's remarkable story appears here in print for the first...
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  • Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving It Away by Lampl, Sir Peter
    Sir Peter Lampl

    Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving It Away

    The candid tale of one of Britain's most outstanding contemporary philanthropists. These pages wryly track Peter's varied career moves, from flogging tickets for one of The Beatles first major concerts, to getting inadvertently caught up in a New York family turf war while trying...
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