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Jeffrey P. Bezos
Founder and Executive Chairman, Amazon.com
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B.B. King
King of the Blues
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Andrew J. Young
Civil Rights Ambassador
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Elie Wiesel
Nobel Prize for Peace
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Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director, ACLU
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Benazir Bhutto
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
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Barry Scheck
The Innocence Project
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Congressman John R. Lewis
Champion of Civil Rights
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Nobel Prize for Peace
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Amy Tan
Bestselling Novelist
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Joyce Carol Oates
National Book Award
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Maya Angelou
Poet and Historian
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Ernest J. Gaines
Master of the Novel
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Coretta Scott King
Pioneer of Civil Rights
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Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
Presidential Medal of Freedom
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John Irving
National Book Award
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Rosa Parks
Pioneer of Civil Rights
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Larry Page
Co-founder of Google Inc.
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Reid Hoffman
Internet Entrepreneur
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Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google Inc.
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General David H. Petraeus, USA
Military Strategist
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Albie Sachs
Constitutional Court of South Africa
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Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.
First American Woman in Space
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Oprah Winfrey
Media Entrepreneur
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Wole Soyinka
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Peyton Manning
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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Dame Julie Andrews
Stage and Screen Actress
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Hilary Swank
Two Oscars for Best Actress
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Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.
Evolutionary Biologist and Historian of Science
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Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.
Father of Modern Ethnobotany
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Esperanza Spalding
Jazz Phenomenon
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George Lucas
Creator of Star Wars
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Stephen Sondheim
Composer and Lyricist
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Frank O. Gehry
Architecture Gold Medal
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Dereck Joubert
Filmmaker and Conservationist
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General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA
Congressional Gold Medal
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Hank Aaron
Baseball Immortal
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Stephen A. Schwarzman
Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group
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Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.
Father of Artificial Organs
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Beverly Joubert
Filmmaker and Conservationist
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William H. Gates III
Co-founder, Microsoft Corporation
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Itzhak Perlman
Virtuoso of the Violin
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N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Neil Sheehan
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
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Vince Gill
Country Music Hall of Fame
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for History
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
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John Banville
Acclaimed Irish Novelist
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Louise Glück
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Richard E. Leakey
Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist
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Lord Martin Rees
Astronomer Royal
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David Doubilet
Pioneer of Underwater Photography
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Tony Fadell
iPod Mastermind and Founder of Nest
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Jessye Norman
Legendary Opera Soprano
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Maya Lin
Artist and Architect
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Dame Jane Goodall
Primatologist and Anthropologist
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Beloved Opera Singer
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Peter Gabriel
Singer, Songwriter and Humanitarian
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Bill Russell
Basketball Hall of Fame
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Dorothy Hamill
U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame
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Sir Roger Bannister
Track and Field Legend
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Harold Prince
Broadway Producer and Director
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Lynn Nottage
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
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Lee R. Berger, Ph.D.
Cradle of Humankind
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Susan Butcher
Champion Sled-Dog Racer
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Dame Olivia de Havilland
Two Oscars for Best Actress
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Thomas Keller
Culinary Impresario
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Jonas Salk, M.D.
Developer of the Polio Vaccine
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Lloyd Richards
Tony Award-winning Director
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Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D.
Father of Sociobiology
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Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
Biomedical Engineering
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Willie Mays
Baseball Hall of Fame
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Frank McCourt
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Leslie H. Wexner
Retailing and Fashion
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John Wooden
Basketball's Coaching Legend
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Leon Panetta
Political Leadership
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David McCullough
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography
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John C. Mather, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics
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William J. Clinton
42nd President of the United States
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Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.
Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence
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Audra McDonald
Six Tony Awards
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General Chuck Yeager, USAF
First Man to Break the Sound Barrier
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Rita Dove
Former Poet Laureate of the United States
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Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
Undersea Explorer
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Daniel K. Inouye
War Hero and Statesman
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David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography
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Ray Dalio
Hedge Fund Master
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Andrew Weil, M.D.
Father of Integrative Medicine
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Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.
Discoverer of the Titanic
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Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Sonia Sotomayor
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
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Edward Teller, Ph.D.
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
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Alice Waters
Food Revolutionary
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Twyla Tharp
Dancer and Choreographer
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Wayne Thiebaud
Painter and Teacher
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Admiral William H. McRaven, USN
Global War on Terrorism
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Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter and Rapper
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Lord Norman Foster
Architecture Gold Medal
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Sir Edmund Hillary
Conqueror of Mount Everest
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Wynton Marsalis
Pulitzer Prize for Music
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Leymah Gbowee
Nobel Prize for Peace
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Lord David Trimble
Nobel Prize for Peace
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Robert Edward (Ted) Turner
Founder, Cable News Network
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General Colin L. Powell, USA
Congressional Gold Medal
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Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN
Medal of Honor
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John Updike
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
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Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.
Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
Novelist and Activist
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Ron Howard
Oscar for Best Director
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Gore Vidal
National Book Award
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Carol Burnett
Television Hall of Fame
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John Hume
Nobel Prize for Peace
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Johnny Mathis
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
Pioneer of Heart Transplants
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Sidney Poitier
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
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Francis Ford Coppola
Filmmaker, Producer and Screenwriter
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Herschel Walker
College Football Hall of Fame
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Johnny Cash
Country Music Legend
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Cal Ripken Jr.
Baseball Hall of Fame
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George H. W. Bush
41st President of the United States
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Tenley Albright, M.D.
U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame
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Larry J. Ellison
Founder and Executive Chairman, Oracle Corporation
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Jeremy Irons
Stage and Screen Actor
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Nora Ephron
Humorist, Screenwriter and Director
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W. S. Merwin
Former Poet Laureate of the United States
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Sir Peter Jackson
Oscar for Best Director
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James A. Michener
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist
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Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.
Discoverer of Lucy
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Chuck Jones
Animation Pioneer
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James Earl Jones
Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Suzanne Farrell
Ballerina Extraordinaire
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Quincy Jones
Music Impresario
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Milton Friedman, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Economics
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Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States
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Carole King
Singer and Songwriter
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Sir Michael Caine
British Film Icon
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Carlos Fuentes
Author, Scholar and Diplomat
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Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN
Medal of Honor
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Jimmy Page
Guitarist and Founder of Led Zeppelin
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Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Immunology and Global Health
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Anthony M. Kennedy
Retired Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
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Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
Musical Theatre Composer
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Lynsey Addario
Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist
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Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
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The Cloister and the Hearth
Charles Reade
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Dubliners
James Joyce
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Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Founder of SiriusXM and United Therapeutics
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Pierre Omidyar
Founder of eBay
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The Little Grey Men
B.B. (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
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The Reason Why
Cecil Woodham-Smith
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
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The Little Engine That Could
Watty Piper
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Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
James MacGregor Burns
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The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
Hugh Lofting
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One Two Three…Infinity
George Gamow
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Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
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Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
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The Scarlet Plague
Jack London
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The Microbe Hunters
Paul de Kruif
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Napoleon
Vincent Cronin
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Galapagos: World’s End
William Beebe
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Arabian Nights
Sir Richard Burton
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The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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Edmund Dulac’s Picture Book
Edmund Dulac
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
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Miss Susie Slagle’s
Augusta Tucker
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The Two-Ocean War
Samuel Eliot Morison
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Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
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The Third Wave
Alvin Toffler
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee
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A Study of History
Arnold J. Toynbee
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
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Roughing It
Mark Twain
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The Warlord of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
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The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Holy Bible
World Bible Publishing
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The Island Within
Ludwig Lewisohn
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
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Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
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The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
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Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
Ellen MacGregor
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The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
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Studs Lonigan
James T. Farrell
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All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
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The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
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My Name is Aram
William Saroyan
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Moby-Dick, or The Whale
Herman Melville
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The Name Above the Title
Frank Capra
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The Republic
Plato
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The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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Escape From Freedom
Erich Fromm
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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Reveille in Washington
Margaret Leech
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Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
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The Moon is Down
John Steinbeck
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Smoky the Cowhorse
Will James
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
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Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Reinhold Messner
Greatest Mountaineer on Earth
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Athol Fugard
Novelist and Playwright
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Norman Mailer
National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Ralph Nader
Consumer Crusader
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Martha Stewart
Multimedia Lifestyle Entrepreneur
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
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R.E. Lee, A Biography
Douglas Southall Freeman
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Ray Kurzweil
Inventor and Futurist
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Carlos Slim Helú
Financier and Philanthropist
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Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.
Father of Artificial Intelligence
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Michael S. Dell
Founder and Chairman, Dell Inc.
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Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine
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J. Carter Brown
Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art
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2004 Summit
43rd Annual International Achievement Summit - Chicago