Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans : a biographical sourcebook / John A. McCrossan.

By:

McCrossan, John Anthony, 1930-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 267 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0313007357
9780313007354
9780313303760
0313303762

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans.DDC classification:

028/.9 21

LOC classification:

Z1039.C45 M34 2000eb

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Contents:

BOOKS AND READING -- NOTABLE AMERICANS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR (1947- ) -- JANE ADDAMS (1860- 1935) -- ARTHUR ASHE, JR. (1943- 1993) -- JAMES BALDWIN (1924- 1987) -- CLARA BARTON (1821- 1912) -- HUMPHREY BOGART (1899- 1957) -- ANDREW CARNEGIE (1815- 1919) -- RACHEL CARSON (1907- 1964) -- WILLA CATHER (1873- 1947) -- CESAR CHAVEZ (1927- 1993) -- SHIRLEY CHISHOLM (1924- ) -- SANDRA CISNEROS (1954- ) -- EUGENE V. DEBS (1855- 1926) -- CECIL B. DeMILLE (1881- 1959) -- FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817?- 1895) -- BOB DYLAN (1941- ).

THOMAS A. EDISON (1847- 1931) -- ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879- 1955) -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706- 1790) -- BILL GATES (1955- ) -- ROBERT GODDARD (1882- 1945) -- HELEN HAYES (1900- 1993) -- ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891- 1960) -- THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743- 1826) -- HELEN KELLER (1880- 1968) -- JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917- 1963) -- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929- 1968) -- STEPHEN KING (1947- ) -- ROBERT E. LEE (1807- 1870) -- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1880- 1964) -- MADONNA (1958- ) -- HORACE MANN (1796- 1859) -- MARILYN MONROE (1926- 1962) -- MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1956- ) -- GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887- 1986).

FRANCES PERKINS (1882- 1965) -- JEANNETTE RANKIN (1880- 1973) -- RONALD REAGAN (1911- ) -- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (1884- 1962) -- BEVERLY SILLS (1929- ) -- STEVEN SPIELBERG (1947- ) -- ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815- 1902) -- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811- 1896) -- HARRY S TRUMAN (1884- 1972) -- GENE TUNNEY (1898- 1978) -- MARK TWAIN (1835- 1910) -- JOHN WANAMAKER (1838- 1922) -- GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732- 1799) -- EMMA WILLARD (1787- 1870) -- OPRAH WINFREY (1954- ) -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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