Invisible giants :fifty Americans who shaped the nation but missed the history books
- 其他作者: Carnes, Mark C.
- 出版: Oxford [England] ;New York : Oxford University Press 2002.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: HISTORY State & Local -- General. , Biographies. , State & LocalGeneral. , Electronic books. , United States Biography. , United States , Historical. , United States. , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical. , HISTORY
- ISBN: 0199740747 , 9780199740741
- ISBN: 0195154177 , 9780195154177 , 9780195168839 , 0195168836
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-310) and index. Johnny Ace -- James Agee -- Jessie Daniel Ames -- Roger Nash Baldwin -- George Bancroft -- Bela Bartok -- Sterling A. Brown -- A.P. Carter and Sara Carter -- John Jay Chapman -- Leon F. Czolgosz -- Robert Latou Dickinson -- Dorothy Draper -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- John England -- Oliver Evans -- Dorothy Fields -- Charles Grandison Finney -- Arthur J. Goldberg -- Emma Goldman -- Adolphus Washington Greely -- Nathanael Greene -- Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- John Hoskins Griscom -- William Halsted -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Handsome Lake -- Herman Haupt -- DuBose Heyward -- Henry Hornbostel -- James Gibbons Huneker -- Blind Lemon Jefferson -- Murray Kempton -- Walter Lippmann -- Malcolm X -- Rocky Marciano -- Adolf Meyer -- Lindley Murray -- Bronislava Nijinska -- Albert Jay Nock -- Fairfield Porter -- Dawn Powell -- Gisela Richter -- Bayard Rustin -- Sequoyah -- Joseph Smith -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Felix Francisco Varela y Morales -- DeWitt Wallace -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Frank W. Woolworth.
- 摘要: Highlights Our Country'S Rich biographical history. Fifty notable people have selected a person from the past whom they admire, but feel they have not received the infamy they deserve.
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- 系統號: 005316216
- 資料類型: 電子書
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Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory. In order to celebrate and call attention to these lives, Oxford University Press asked fifty accomplished personalities from a diverse range of interests to each select a person from the 24-volume American National Biography that they felt deserved more attention. In Invisible Giants, the biographies of these forgotten figures appear alongside the often-personal comments of their selectors. We discover the man who inspired Sherwin Nuland to become a doctor, the writer Jacques Barzun considers America's first cultural critic, and the woman who taught Tina Brown to bare her teeth. We learn of the poetry recited to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a boy, the magazine Helen Gurley Brown required every one of her editors to subscribe to, and the book Andy Rooney deems "better than the Bible and easier to understand." Edited by Mark C. Carnes and published with the American Council of Learned Societies, Invisible Giants presents the architects of our country's past through the eyes of the architects of its future.
來源: Google Book
來源: Google Book
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