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Profiles in audacity, great decisions and how they were made, Alan Axelrod

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non fiction

Profiles in audacity

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Alan Axelrod

great decisions and how they were made

Cleopatra and the Romans -- Queen Boudicca and the invaders -- Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada -- Beethoven and deafness -- Tecumseh and an indian nation -- Truman and the A-bomb -- John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Columbus and the new world -- Galileo and the universe -- Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the American wilderness -- Charlie Goodnight and the first cattle drive -- Edison and electric light -- Theodore Roosevelt and the panama Canal -- The Wright Brothers and the airplane -- Sigmund Freud and sex -- Frank X. Mcnamara and Diners Club -- John F. kennedy and the moon -- Ted Turner and CNN -- Bill Gates and MS-DOS -- Joan of Arc and the Dauphin -- Lincoln and emancipation -- Clara Barton and the soldiers -- Gandhi and nonviolent revolution -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP -- Marshal and the Marshall Plan -- Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson -- Rosa Parks and the right to sit -- Betty Friedan and a woman's place -- Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act -- Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers -- James Burke and the Tylenol murders -- William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest -- Washington and the Delaware crossing -- Woodrow Wilson and World War I -- Jimmy Doolittle and the Tokyo Raid -- Truman and the Berlin airlift -- Edmund Hillary and Everest -- Richard M. Nixon and China -- Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Coup -- Chief Joseph and the end of battle -- Andrew Carnegie and the gospel of wealth -- Dwight Eisenhower and D-Day -- Menachen Begin and El-Anwar Sadat -- Todd Beamer and Flight 93