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Russell Freedman

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

October 11, 1929

Died

March 16, 2018

Genre

Children's Books, Biographies & Memoirs

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Russell A. Freedman was an American biographer and the author of nearly 50 books for young people. He may be known best for winning the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography.

He grew up in San Francisco and attended the University of California, Berkeley, and then worked as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press and as a publicity writer. His nonfiction books ranged in subject from the lives and behaviors of animals to people in history. Freeedman's work has earned him several awards, including a Newbery Honor each for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery in 1994 and The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane in 1992, and a Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal.

Freedman traveled extensively throughout the world t ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 26,340 ratings · 3,930 reviews · 90 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lincoln: A Photobiography 3.91 avg rating — 10,939 ratings — published 1987 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler 4.26 avg rating — 1,964 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eleanor Roosevelt 3.96 avg rating — 1,538 ratings — published 1993 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott 4.11 avg rating — 1,335 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 3.97 avg rating — 1,234 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane 3.89 avg rating — 1,180 ratings — published 1991 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War to End All Wars: World War I 3.91 avg rating — 1,163 ratings — published 2009 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman, Russell Freedman 4.15 avg rating — 1,054 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor 4.20 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship 4.09 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)”
― Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography

tags: thought-provoking

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“Marco reported that homeless children [in Kublai Kahn's city of Daidu] were cared for and educated. While he says little about the system of education in China, we know from records of the time that Kublai Khan created thousands of public schools to provide a basic education for all children, including those of poor peasants. Until then, only the wealthy were literate. Kublai's bid at 'universal education' had never been attempted by any country on Earth. In the western world, nearly 500 years would pass before governments began to take responsibility for the public education of all children.”
― Russell Freedman

tags: the-adventures-of-marco-polo

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“We have a large circle—all of them anti-Hitler,” one participant told Inge. “And each of these friends has his own separate circle which is anti-Hitler, and so on and so forth: a great underground network against Hitler. If only someone could get them to act collectively.”
― Russell Freedman, We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler

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Vote for our WWI non-fiction title for the March retreat. Last day to vote will be October 22.

The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm

Juliet Nicolson

6 votes, 33.3%

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

4 votes, 22.2%

Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert K. Massie

3 votes, 16.7%

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

2 votes, 11.1%

Vimy

Pierre Berton

1 vote, 5.6%

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort

Edith Wharton

1 vote, 5.6%

The War to End All Wars: World War I

Russell Freedman

1 vote, 5.6%

18 total votes

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