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

By Mark C. Carnes

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2003
ISBN
9780195168839, 0195168836
Open Library ID
OL7390872M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4440588 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
330\330
Topic
History
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

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

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