American Portraits: v. 2
Biographies in United States History
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
317 pages
978-0-07-069142-1 (ISBN)
Description
This two-volume biographical reader captures the lives of both famous and lesser-known Americans. It looks at people who affected and were affected by their times. The volumes are balanced chronologically and geographically, and in terms of gender and race.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 157 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-069142-1 (9780070691421)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1: Christopher Columbus; Anne Hutchinson; William Byrd; William Penn. Part 2: Daniel Boone; Tecumseh; Phillis Wheatley; Thomas Jefferson; John Marshall. Part 3: Frances Wright; Nat Turner; Sam Houston; Mary Richardson Walker; Elizabeth Blackwell. Part 4: Harriet Beacher Stowe; John Brown; William T. Sherman; Emily Lyles Harris; Jams T. Rapier. Part 5: Philip H. Sheridan; Susan LaFlesche Picotte; Sarah Christie Stevens; Henry McNeal Turner; John D. Rockefeller; Stephen Crane. Part 6 Theodore Roosevelt; Eugend V. Debs; W.E.B. Dubois; Margaret Sanger; Eleanor Roosevelt; Huey Long; George Patton. Part 7 Joseph McCarthy; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Betty Friedan; Cesar Chavez; group profile - American wage earners in a changing economy.