The Encylopædia Britannica guide to the 100 most influential Americans:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Chicago] Encyclopaedia Britannica c2008
Series:Britannica guide series
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Item Description:Includes index
Introduction; Jonathan Edwards; Benjamin Franklin; George Washington; Thomas Paine; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; John Marshall; Alexander Hamilton; Noah Webster; Robert Fulton; Eli Whitney; Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea; Samuel F.B. Morse; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Lloyd Garrison; Joseph Smith; Robert E. Lee; Abraham Lincoln; Cyrus Hall McCormick; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Henry David Thoreau; Frederick Douglass; Herman Melville; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Walt Whitman; Harriet Tubman; Andrew Carnegie; Mark Twain
Shining the spotlight on a hundred men and women who really made a difference to the world?s most powerful nation, this book features the lives and achievements of extraordinary Americans ? presidents and sports figures, film stars and physicists, generals and Internet mavericks ? from the age of the Founding Fathers to the present. Telling the stories of lives of men and women over the last 300 years, the book celebrates their achievements and presents a revealing history of the United States. Selected by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the book contains surprises and insights into t
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 483 p.)
ISBN:1593398573
9781593398576

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