My Checkered Life
My Checkered Life

Author: Fern L. Henry

Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781887694520

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My Checkered Life is Luzena Stanley Wilson's classic account of her family's 1849 overland journey and life in early California. Fern Henry draws upon her considerable skills as a researcher to bring to light intriguing details, following the Wilson family from their Quaker beginnings in North Carolina, to their experiences in Nevada City, Sacramento, and Vacaville. This compelling story is enriched with narratives of other gold seekers and settlers, and illustrated with rare photographs, documents, and engravings.

Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past
Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past

Author: Al Unser

Publisher:

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781642341034

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Winning came naturally for Al Unser, Jr. He had a gift for finding the fast line on the track and he possessed a boisterous and lovable personality. Fans and the press adored him. Behind this affable persona, an appetite for drugs and alcohol was destroying his private life. Unser's battle to climb out of that cave is one of the great stories in motorsports. A Checkered Past is an unblinking story of triumph, tragedy, and the road to recovery.

A Chequered Brilliance
A Chequered Brilliance

Author: Jairam Ramesh

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 935305740X

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This is a compelling biography of one of India's most controversial and consequential public figures. V.K. Krishna Menon continues to command our attention not just because he was Jawaharlal Nehru's confidant and soulmate but also for many of his own political and literary accomplishments. A relentless crusader for Indian independence in the UK in the 1930s and 1940s, he was a global star at the United Nations in the 1950s before he was forced to resign as defence minister in the wake of the India-China war of 1962. Meticulously researched and based entirely on new archival material, this book reveals Krishna Menon in all his capabilities and contradictions. It is also a rich history of the tumultuous times in which he lived and which he did so much to shape.