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A one-of-a-kind storyteller like the Old Gray Goose, with a career generations long, has had a heck of a lot of hits! Songs, stories, white lies, and tall tales guaranteed to entertain, enlighten, and educate kids everywhere. Magic is an indefinable power – just like Goose. The Old Gray Goose the world’s most beloved storyteller it’s currently over 153 years old! He hails from Weymouth, Massachusetts, and is the youngest son of Mother Goose. For many years he worked at the YMCA in Lockport, New York, and was the program director at Camp Kenan in nearby Barker. Goose has the magical ability to turn virtually every minute of the day into an exciting fun adventure. His original stories, funny songs, tall tales, and white lies have entertained, mesmerized and enthralled people young and old for decades. Whether he’s around the campfire performing in his old pit helmet and tennis racket guitar, biking with campers around Lake Ontario, running with the Olympic torch to the delight of his legions of fans, or just sitting around the camp playing a friendly game of tetherball or talking with the campers the Old Gray Goose is that one in a million; a great storyteller, a great advocate of young people, and most importantly – a great man! Here is the very best of the wonderful Old Gray Goose.

Benito Mussolini born on July 29, 1883 who went by the nickname “Il Duce” (“the Leader”), was a deeply unbalanced tyrannical Italian dictator who created the dreaded Fascist Party in 1919. Eventually, he held all power in Italy as the country’s prime minister from 1922 to 1943. An ardent socialist as a youth, Mussolini followed in his father’s political footsteps but was expelled by the party for his overt support of World War I. As an evil dictator during World War II (even murdering his own son by lethal injection) he greatly overextended his forces and was eventually killed by his own people in Mezzegra, Italy. Here, for the first time, are the words of the great dictator himself in his twisted manifesto on the political movement he started and is still so feared to this very day.

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is imprisoned and the family goods confiscated. When Ben-Hur saves the fleet captain from drowning after his ship is sunk in a fight with pirates, that officer adopts him as son and heir. With Roman training, Ben-Hur distinguishes himself in the arena and the palistrae and appears to be on the way to high military command. With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his estate.

With an in-depth, insightful narration by the author, as well as rare archival, unheard interviews – here is the perfect collection celebrating Paul McCartney for every dedicated fan, music historian, the media, as well as all school, library, institutional and university collections. An ultra rare, exciting audio biography! Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of thirty two popular international best selling biographies on the Beatles and other iconic rock groups of the 1960s. He is also a well know Hollywood screenwriter, the voice on over five hundred popular audiobooks as well as an actor in some twenty five classic films. For everyone interested in the history, art, and cultural significance of the popular music of the 20th century, this series is a once in a lifetime, must have audio event. Perfect for universities and all educational institutions.