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Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans : a biographical sourcebook
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Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans : a biographical sourcebook

Author: John Anthony McCrossan
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
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This volume covers the reading of 50 notable Americans, including Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, Kareem Abdul-Jabber, Mark Twain, Oprah Winfrey and Ronald Reagan. It surveys the role books and  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
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 Read more...

 
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