| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Collection of essays by various biographers based on interviews originally held on the television program Booknotes. |
| Contents |
George Washington -- Paul Revere -- John Adams -- Thomas Paine -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- Marquis de Lafayette -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Henry Clay -- John C. Calhoun -- Winfield Scott -- Sam Houston -- Sojourner Truth -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Robert E. Lee -- Salmon P. Chase -- Abraham Lincoln -- Walt Whitman -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Rutherford B. Hayes -- George Pickett -- George Armstrong Custer -- John D. Rockefeller |
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Sr. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Thomas Edison -- Woodrow Wilson -- Theodore Roosevelt -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marcel Proust -- Calvin Coolidge -- Will Rogers -- Albert Einstein -- H.L. Mencken -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Harry Truman -- George Patton -- Dwight Eisenhower -- Charles Coughlin -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Elijah Muhammad -- Amelia Earhart -- Armand Hammer -- F.A. Hayek -- Ernie Pyle -- Adlai Stevenson -- Whittaker Chambers -- Strom Thurmond |
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-- Clare Boothe Luce -- Thurgood Marshall -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Ronald Reagan -- Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill -- Richard Nixon -- Gerald Ford -- Robert McNamara -- Katharine Graham -- John F. Kennedy -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- George Wallace -- Betty Friedan -- Henry Kissinger -- Jimmy Carter -- George Bush -- William F. Buckley, Jr. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Ross Perot -- Frank McCourt -- Rosa Lee Cunningham -- Lee Harvey Oswald -- John |
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Lewis -- Newt Gingrich -- Bill clinton -- Anita Hill. |
| Subject |
Biography.
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| Added Author |
Lamb, Brian, 1941-
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| Added Title |
Book notes |
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Booknotes (Television program)
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| ISBN |
0812930819 hardcover alkaline paper |
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