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On April 4, 1864, Abraham Lincoln made a shocking admission about his presidency        during the Civil War. "e;I claim not to have controlled events,"e; he wrote in a letter,        "e;but confess plainly that events have controlled me."e; Lincoln's words carry an        invaluable lesson for wartime presidents, writes Andrew J....

This book presents the stories of pioneer African American women in chemistry, exploring the reasons they chose to study chemistry when the field was not open to African Americans--male or female--and how they persevered in spite of all odds....

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