Booknotes : life stories : notable biographers on the people who shaped America / [compiled] by Brian Lamb.
| Other author | Lamb, Brian, 1941- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Times Books, ©1999. |
| Description | xxiii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Parallel title | Book notes |
| Contents | George Washington -- Paul Revere -- John Adams -- Thomas Paine -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- Marquis de Lafayette -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Henry Clay -- John C. Calhoun -- Winfield Scott -- Sam Houston -- Sojourner Truth -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Robert E. Lee -- Salmon P. Chase -- Abraham Lincoln -- Walt Whitman -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Rutherford B. Hayes -- George Pickett -- George Armstrong Custer -- John D. Rockefeller, Sr. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Thomas Edison -- Woodrow Wilson -- Theodore Roosevelt -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marcel Proust -- Calvin Coolidge -- Will Rogers -- Albert Einstein -- H.L. Mencken -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Harry Truman -- George Patton -- Dwight Eisenhower -- Charles Coughlin -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Elijah Muhammad -- Amelia Earhart -- Armand Hammer -- F.A. Hayek -- Ernie Pyle -- Adlai Stevenson -- Whittaker Chambers -- Strom Thurmond -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Thurgood Marshall -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Ronald Reagan -- Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill -- Richard Nixon -- Gerald Ford -- Robert McNamara -- Katharine Graham -- John F. Kennedy -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- George Wallace -- Betty Friedan -- Henry Kissinger -- Jimmy Carter -- George Bush -- William F. Buckley, Jr. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Ross Perot -- Frank McCourt -- Rosa Lee Cunningham -- Lee Harvey Oswald -- John Lewis -- Newt Gingrich -- Bill clinton -- Anita Hill. |
| General note | Collection of essays by various biographers based on interviews originally held on the television program Booknotes. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Other title | Booknotes (Television program) |
| LCCN | 98041374 |
| ISBN | 0812930819 (HC : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | CT104 .B62 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |