Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Americans

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2008

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9781593398576

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6th Grade - 12th Grade

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Shining the spotlight on a hundred men and women who really made a difference to the world's most powerful nation, this book features the lives and achievements of extraordinary Americans - presidents and sports figures, film stars and physicists, generals and Internet mavericks - from the age of the Founding Fathers to the present. Telling the stories of lives of men and women over the last 300 years, the book celebrates their achievements and presents a revealing history of the United States. Selected by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the book contains surprises and insights into the personalities that created America and is bound to cause debate.
Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Jonathan Edwards (1703–58).
2: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90).
3: George Washington (1732–99).
4: Thomas Paine (1737–1809).
5: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826).
6: James Madison (1751–1836).
7: John Marshall (1755–1835).
8: Alexander Hamilton (1755/57–1804).
9: Noah Webster (1758–1843).
10: Robert Fulton (1765–1815).
11: Eli Whitney (1765–1825).
12: Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809), William Clark (1770–1838), and Sacagawea (1788–1812).
13: Samuel F.B. Morse (1791–1872).
14: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82).
15: William Lloyd Garrison (1805–79).
16: Joseph Smith (1805–44).
17: Robert E. Lee (1807–70).
18: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65).
19: Cyrus Hall Mccormick (1809–84).
20: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96).
21: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906).
22: Henry David Thoreau (1817–62).
23: Frederick Douglass (1818?–95).
24: Herman Melville (1819–91).
25: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1819–94).
26: Walt Whitman (1819–92).
27: Harriet Tubman (1820–1913).
28: Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919).
29: Mark Twain (1835–1910).
30: J.P. Morgan (1837–1913).
31: John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937).
32: Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931).
33: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922).
34: Louis Sullivan (1856–1924).
35: Booker T. Washington (1856–1915).
36: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919).
37: John Dewey (1859–1952).
38: Jane Addams (1860–1935).
39: Henry Ford (1863–1947).
40: William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951).
41: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959).
42: Wilbur (1867–1912) and Orville (1871–1948) Wright.
43: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963).
44: D.W. Griffith (1875–1948).
45: Margaret Sanger
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