Best known for his screen prints of soup cans and movie stars, this shy young boy from Pittsburgh shot to fame with his radical ideas of what “art” could be....

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation....

Isaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries of the universe. When the plague broke out in London in 1665 he was forced to return home from college....

Hail to the Chiefs is a boxed set that includes WHO WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON?, WHO WAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN?, WHO WAS JOHN F.KENNEDY?, WHO WAS RONALD REAGAN?, and WHO IS BARACK OBAMA? With 80 black-and-white illustrations and an easy-to-read narrative, this collection shows how five different men dealt with the most powerful - and difficult - job on earth....

Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family\'s white house. His family was poor, and the happiest time of his childhood was spent living on a farm in Missouri. His affection for small-town life is reflected in Disneyland Main Streets around the world....

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to....

Just in time for Roahl Dahl Month! Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children\'s book authors ever. Now in this \"Who Was...?\" biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was married to an Academy Award-winning actress. He also wrote books and screenplays for adults....

As a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basketball, and, of course, baseball. But beyond athletic skill, it was his strength of character that secured his place in sports history. In 1947 Jackie joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the long-time color barrier in major league baseball....

Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in the White House....

Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China... and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed....

For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House... until Eleanor Roosevelt. Born in 1884, Eleanor was not satisfied to just be a glorified hostess for her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor had a voice, and she used it to speak up against poverty and racism....

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting \"useless\" experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle....

From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in Hollywood and on to a career in politics that took him all the way to the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan kept an abiding faith in America and in what our country stood for. The oldest president ever, he survived a near-fatal assassination attempt and lived to be 93. \"Who Was Ronald Reagan?...

Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? It\'s true. The shy Virginia statesman refused at first, but then went on to author one of our nation\'s most important and inspiring documents. The third U.S....