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Invisible Giants : Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation and Missed the History Books.

History records the accomplishments of individuals. For successive generations of Americans, iconic figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, and Emily Dickinson have been household names and role models, inspiring us all by the lessons their lives teach us. But some great Am...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carnes, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002.
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505 0 |a Contents -- Introduction -- Johnny Ace -- James Agee -- Jessie Daniel Ames -- Roger Nash Baldwin -- George Bancroft -- Béla Bartók -- 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 
505 8 |a Fannie Lou HamerHandsome 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 
505 8 |a Authors of Articles from the American National BiographySources and Further Readings -- The Selectors 
520 |a History records the accomplishments of individuals. For successive generations of Americans, iconic figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, and Emily Dickinson have been household names and role models, inspiring us all by the lessons their lives teach us. But some great Americans, just as worthy, never attain this recognition. Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of those who shaped the nation and its future have receded from public memory. In celebration of these lives-and to demonstrate the lasting power history's giants have over their successors-Oxford University Press recently asked fifty accomplished personalities from a diverse range of industries and interests to each select a person from the 24-volume American National Biography that they felt deserved more attention. The biographies of these forgotten figures appear alongside the often-personal comments of their selectors in Invisible Giants, a varied and lively collection of portraits celebrating history's forgotten and fading heroes. In Invisible Giants 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." Whether encountering these figures for the first time or uncovering surprising details in the lives you thought you knew, today's public thinkers guide us on a journey into the deep folds of our rich biographical tapestry. Edited by Mark Carnes and published with the American Council of Learned Societies, Invisible Giants introduces one of the nation's most. 
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