Special Features
- Interview: Orlando Cepeda
- Primary Resources: 1971 World Series
- Primary Resources: 3,000th Hit
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Primary Resources: MVP
- Interview: Bernardo Ruiz
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Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash.
Jesse James
America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself. Part of the Wild West collection.
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Fly Girls
During World War II, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military as WASPS.
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Nixon's China Game
President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger initiated a secret diplomatic breakthrough with Mao Tse-tung that shocked and changed the world.
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FDR
Franklin Roosevelt restored hope after the Great Depression and led the nation during World War II. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
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The Fight
A man who symbolized African American equality fought a proponent of Hitler's Aryan racial theories on the eve of World War II.
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The Crash of 1929
The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, 1929.
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Eugene O'Neill
A great playwright's turbulent story, from childhood through the years of his Nobel Prize-winning career to his lonely, painful death.
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A Class Apart
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans.
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