Helen And Teacher: The Story Of Helen Keller And Anne Sullivan Macy (Radcliffe Biography Series)
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ISBN: 0201694689 / Publisher: Da Capo Press, April 1997
Portrays the lives and relationships of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy from the 1860s and Anne Sullivan's childhood in an almshouse, through the decades of international fame, to Helen's death in 1968
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At the heart of this wonderful biography is the relationship between two great American women whose lives were bound together for all time. Joseph P. Lash, author of Eleanor and Franklin, follows this gifted, passionate, and humanly flawed pair for 100 years, from Annie’s childhood in an almshouse in the 1860s, through decades of international fame, to Helen’s death in 1968. Among the vivid characters associated with their lives are Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Charlie Chaplin, and Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.
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