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There were giants in the land; twenty-eight historic Americans as seen by twenty-eight contemporary Americans / with an introduction by Henry Morgenthau, jr., illustrated by Charles Child.
LIBRA - Temporarily Unavailable 920.73 T345
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Log in to request item- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi pages, 2 . pages, 3 unnumbered pages-242 pages, 1 unnumbered page : including frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Toronto : Farrar & Rinehart, inc., [1942]
- Contents:
- Daniel Webster, by S. V. Benét.
- Theodore Roosevelt, by Julian Street.
- Dr. Joseph Goldberger, by Paul de Kruif.
- Julia Ward Howe, by Alexander Woollcott.
- James Cardinal Gibbons, by William Agar.
- Andrew Jackson, by Marquis James.
- Nathan Hale, by Nancy Hale.
- Roger Williams, by Stanley High.
- Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren.
- Lew Wallace, by Booth Tarkington.
- Walt Whitman, by Mark Van Doren.
- Alexander Hamilton, by Lyman Bryson.
- William Jennings Bryan, by Henry Commager.
- Thomas Paine, by Struthers Burt.
- Woodrow Wilson, by F. L. Allen.
- Lafayette, by W. E. Woodward.
- Thomas Jefferson, by Claude Bowers.
- Frederick Douglass, by Angelo Herndon.
- Robert E. Lee, by D. S. Freeman.
- Paul Revere, by Esther Forbes.
- Henry David Thoreau, by H. S. Canby.
- Grover Cleveland, by Allan Nevins.
- James Lawrence, by J. P. Marquand.
- George Washington, by Rupert Hughes.
- Francis Marion, by Helena H. Smith.
- Carl Schurz, by Wendell Willkie.
- Benjamin Cardozo, by Fannie Hurst.
- Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg.
- Notes:
- "Written at the suggestion of the Treasury department."--Introd.
- OCLC:
- 1516858
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