Presents the lives and careers of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress and his wife, an activist in the struggle for black majority rights in South Africa.

Surveys the life and career of the first prime minister of Israel.

A biography of the commander general of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II who became the thirty-fourth President of the United States.

Examines the upbringing, education, writings, and political activities of one of the founders of the NAACP.

A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped intensify the disagreement between North and South.

A biography of the the four boys from Liverpool who, after achieving phenomenal success as the Beatles, were pressured by international fame, and broke up in 1970.