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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Anthony McCrossan |
| ISBN: | 0313303762 9780313303760 |
| OCLC Number: | 42383477 |
| Description: | xv, 267 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- Jane Addams -- Arthur Ashe, Jr. -- James Baldwin -- Clara Barton -- Humphrey Bogart -- Andrew Carnegie -- Rachel Carson -- Willa Cather -- Cesar Chavez -- Shirley Chisholm -- Sandra Cisneros -- Eugene V. Debs -- Cecil B. DeMille -- Frederick Douglass -- Bob Dylan -- Thomas A. Edison -- Albert Einstein -- Benjamin Franklin -- Bill Gates -- Robert Goddard -- Helen Hayes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Thomas Jefferson -- Helen Keller -- John F. Kennedy -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Stephen King -- Robert E. Lee -- Douglas MacArthur -- Madonna -- Horace Mann -- Marilyn Monroe -- Martina Navratilova -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Frances Perkins -- Jeannette Rankin -- Ronald Reagan -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Beverly Sills -- Steven Spielberg -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harry S Truman -- Gene Tunney -- Mark Twain -- John Wanamaker -- George Washington -- Emma Willard -- Oprah Winfrey. |
| Responsibility: | John A. McCrossan. |
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"Books and Reading in the Lives of Notable Americans makes a unique contribution to the literature. The author has selected carefully to represent Americans from diverse backgrounds, including women and people of color, in addition to presidents and military figures. These biographies will provide valuable role models that illustrate the importance of reading in the lives of these significant Americans. Teachers will find this work useful for inspiring children to read. Librarians and libraries should find this work valuable for promoting books, literacy, and reading programs. Recommended for school, college, and public libraries."-Jo Bell Whitlatch President, Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association, 1998-1999 Read more...
