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Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
Neil Abercrombie, Politician (1938) |
Georgie Fame, Musician (1943) |
Warren Farrell, Writer (1943) |
Milton Glaser, Designer (1929) |
Chris Isaak, Musician (1956) |
Derek Jeter, Athlete (1974) |
Lord Kelvin, Scientist (1824) |
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman (1963) |
John Langdon, Politician (1741) |
Greg LeMond, Athlete (1961) |
Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Theologian (1988) |
Simon Cameron, Politician (1889) |
Roy Campanella, Athlete (1993) |
Nora Ephron, Author (2012) |
James Weldon Johnson, Poet (1938) |
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Musician (1997) |
Karl Landsteiner, Scientist (1943) |