By Michael S Mayer
Written for prime tuition and school scholars, this sequence highlights the administrations folks Presidents. prepared in an easy-to-use, A-Z structure, every one quantity specializes in a selected management, together with an creation, a piece of biographical entries, a chronology that spans the heritage of the management and extra.
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