American Characters
Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits
Published on 11. August 1999
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-0-300-07895-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together 160 famous American figures from Pocahontas to Louis Armstrong, providing visual and verbal portraits of their place in American life. The portraiture is paired with literary images taken from eyewitness accounts, memoirs, poems, letters and biographies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
69 colour plates, 91 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 293 mm
Weight
1770 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-07895-4 (9780300078954)
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