Invisible giants : fifty Americans who shaped the nation but missed the history books
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-310). |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| ISBN: | 0195154177 (acid-free paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Johnny Ace / Michael Eric Dyson
- James Agee / Sven Birkerts
- Jessie Daniel Ames / Alan Brinkley
- Roger Nash Baldwin / Richard Avedon
- George Bancroft / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- Bela Bartok / John Simon
- Sterling A. Brown / Sharon Olds
- A.P. Carter and Sara Carter / Lee Smith
- John Jay Chapman / Jacques Barzun
- Leon F. Czolgosz / Mark C. Carnes
- Robert Latou Dickinson / David M. Kennedy
- Dorothy Draper / Katie Brown
- Paul Laurence Dunbar / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- John England / Andrew Greeley
- Oliver Evans / Harold Evans
- Dorothy Fields / David Lehman
- Charles Grandison Finney / Edmund S. Morgan
- Arthur J. Goldberg / Alan M. Dershowitz
- Emma Goldman / Martin Duberman
- Adolphus Washington Greely / Simon Winchester
- Nathanael Greene / Terry Golway
- Charles Tomlinson Griffes / Wayne Koestenbaum
- John Hoskins Griscom / Mike Wallace
- William Halsted / Sherwin Nuland
- Fannie Lou hamer / Gloria Steiner
- Handsome Lake / Wilma Mankiller
- Herman Haupt / James M. McPherson
- DuBose Heyward / Stephen Sondheim
- Henry Hornbostel / Michael Graves
- James Gibbons Huneker / Gary Giddins
- Blind Lemon Jefferson / Elizabeth Swados
- Murray Kempton / Walter Shapiro
- Walter Lippmann / Andy Rooney
- Malcolm X / Ed Koch
- Rocky Marciano / Alfonse D'Amato
- Adolf Meyer / Andrew Solomon
- Lindley Murray / Bryan A. Garner
- Bronislava Nijinska / Joan Acocella
- Albert Jay Nock / William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Fairfield Porter / Hilton Kramer
- Dawn Powell / Fran Lebowitz
- Gisela Richter / Camille Paglia
- Bayard Rustin / Evan Wolfson
- Sequoyah / William Least Heat-Moon
- Joseph Smith / Harold Bloom
- Melvin B. Tolson / Rita Dove
- Felix Francisco Varela y Morales / Nicolas Kanellos
- DeWitt Wallace / Helen Gurley Brown
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Tina Brown
- Frank W. Woolworth / A.M. Homes.