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John Eliot
Dr. John Eliot mentors executives and advises professional sports teams, coaches, and athletes on how to apply individual and organizational psychology principles for enhancing health, performance, workplace culture, and bottom line. He has consulted for, among others: NASA, the USOC, the Shepherd School of Music (which, while working with Dr. Eliot, passed Julliard to become the #1 music school in the United States), MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Mayo Clinic, Accenture, Deutsche Bank, Shell, BP, Sony, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and scores of Fortune 500 decision-makers. His work has received considerable media attention, from being a featured guest on Donny Deutsch’s “The Big Idea” to ESPN, Fox Sports, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, and many more. Dr. Eliot has held professorial appointments at the University of Virginia, Stanford, Rice, the SMU Edwin Cox School of Business, and the Texas Medical Center, all where he won institution-wide teaching awards.
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64 books
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was one of the Founding Fathers and the third President of the United States. He advocated for democracy and individual rights, and he produced many of the documents that laid the foundation and set the standards for the United States at both the state and federal level.
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187 books
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a founding father of the United States of America. He was a printer, publisher, author, inventor, scientist, and diplomat. Franklin is known for signing and drafting the Declaration of Independence, representing America during the American Revolution, and making significant contributions to science.
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28 books
John Jay
John Jay (1745-1829) was an American statesman and first Chief Justice of the United States. he was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia University in 1764. In pre-Revolutionary activities he reflected the views of the conservative colonial merchant, opposing British actions but not favoring independence. Once the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, however, he energetically supported the patriot cause. He contributed five papers to The Federalist, dealing chiefly with the Constitution in relation to foreign affairs.
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George Washington
George Washington (1732–99) was one of the Founding Fathers and the first President of the United States. He led the American forces to victory over the British during the Revolutionary War, presided over the 1787 Constitutional Convention that established the U.S. federal government, and is generally referred to as the "Father of His Country."
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47 books
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) served as the sixteenth President of the United States. He led the nation during the Civil War, abolished slavery, modernized the U.S. economy, and strengthened the federal government. He was assassinated in 1865.
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Harvard Classics Volume 43 : American Historical Documents

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Harvard Classics Volume 1 : Franklin, Woolman, Penn

Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, Golden Deer Classics, William Penn

Harvard Classics Volume 2 : Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Golden Deer Classics

Harvard Classics Volume 3 : Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thos. Browne

John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne, Golden Deer Classics, Francis Bacon

Harvard Classics Volume 4 : Complete Poems In English, John Milton

John Milton, Golden Deer Classics

Harvard Classics Volume 5 : Essays And English Traits, Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Golden Deer Classics

Harvard Classics Volume 6 : Poems And Songs, Burns

Robert Burns, Golden Deer Classics

Harvard Classics Volume 7 : Confessions Of St. Augustine, Imitation Of Christ

Thomas À Kampis, Golden Deer Classics, St. Augustine

Harvard Classics Volume 8 : Nine Greek Dramas

Aeschylus, Golden Deer Classics, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes

Harvard Classics Volume 9 : Letters And Treatises Of Cicero And Pliny

Cicero, Golden Deer Classics, Pliny the Younger

Harvard Classics Volume 10 : Wealth Of Nations, Adam Smith

Adam Smith, Golden Deer Classics

Harvard Classics Volume 11 : Origin Of Species, Darwin

Charles Darwin, Golden Deer Classics

Harvard Classics Volume 12 : Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch, Golden Deer Classics

John Eliot

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin

John Jay

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln