Account Information

bundle-connector

secondary-account-menu

mega-menu

zone3

single-column

products

Would you like to go to the Gale {{RECOMMENDED_COUNTRY}} site instead?

It looks like you're visiting from {{DETECTED_COUNTRY}}.

main

Marketing materials, training documents, discovery services

cengage:card

FIND YOUR SALES REPRESENTATIVE

cengage:column

Get marketing materials, training documents, discovery services.

PRODUCT SUPPORT

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Report technical issues, errors, check system status

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Manage product preferences, generate usage reports, simplify administrative tasks.

ADMIN TOOLS

support

cengage:galethorndikeseo

Profile

Orders

Wish List

Fast Order Entry

My Account

header-component

header

config

Browse by Institution Type

Browse by Product Type

Products

Support

container

footer-legal-menu

Terms of use

Privacy

footer-menu

Academic Institutions

K-12

Public Libraries

Government and Special Libraries

Statewide Programs

Institutions

Databases

Primary Sources

Digital Humanities Tools

eLearning

Schools/K-12 Curriculum

Books

Large Print Books by Thorndike Press

Find Your Rep

Product Support

Technical Support

Customer Support

Admin Tools

Accessibility Policy

About Us

Blogs

Press Center

Events

News

Careers

Partnerships

Contact Us

Our Company

footer

secondary-primary-menu

gale-footer

FIND YOUR REP

support-order-2

footer-social-menu-component

Request a Trial

secondary-storefront-menu

zone2

footer-legal-menu-component

%1 products have been added to your cart but %2 have been backordered and will be fulfilled when stock is available

Product on backorder

Current quantity limit is [maxProductQuantity], please, navigate to the cart page and change quantity of product

You will be able to resubmit promo in ${countdown} seconds. test

Please note that the taxes displayed on our website are estimated and subject to adjustment. The actual tax charges will be determined and settled during the final invoicing of your order

product-detail-component

zone1

footer-menu-component

International

North America

China

Japan

Latin America

Brazil

Region

Set your region:

You may already have access to Gale content through your institution.

STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS

support-order-1

footer-social-menu

Sign Up for Emails

CONNECT WITH GALE

Stay up-to-date with the latest Gale news, exclusive offers, and more.

facebook

linkedin

instagram

youtube

SOCIAL ICONS

Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Americans

BRITANNICA GUIDE TO 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL AMERICANS

U.S. Biography

Biography & Genealogy

Gt Product Group

Binding Format

Marketing Imprint Name

B2B GT

CL Carton Count

Imprint Name

B2B & B2C

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.

HIGH SCHOOL

ELEMENTARY

Lexile Measure

Duration

Duration Unit Of Measure

Transaction Type

1390

Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Jonathan Edwards (1703&#x2013;58).
2: Benjamin Franklin (1706&#x2013;90).
3: George Washington (1732&#x2013;99).
4: Thomas Paine (1737&#x2013;1809).
5: Thomas Jefferson (1743&#x2013;1826).
6: James Madison (1751&#x2013;1836).
7: John Marshall (1755&#x2013;1835).
8: Alexander Hamilton (1755/57&#x2013;1804).
9: Noah Webster (1758&#x2013;1843).
10: Robert Fulton (1765&#x2013;1815).
11: Eli Whitney (1765&#x2013;1825).
12: Meriwether Lewis (1774&#x2013;1809), William Clark (1770&#x2013;1838), and Sacagawea (1788&#x2013;1812).
13: Samuel F.B. Morse (1791&#x2013;1872).
14: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803&#x2013;82).
15: William Lloyd Garrison (1805&#x2013;79).
16: Joseph Smith (1805&#x2013;44).
17: Robert E. Lee (1807&#x2013;70).
18: Abraham Lincoln (1809&#x2013;65).
19: Cyrus Hall Mccormick (1809&#x2013;84).
20: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811&#x2013;96).
21: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815&#x2013;1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820&#x2013;1906).
22: Henry David Thoreau (1817&#x2013;62).
23: Frederick Douglass (1818?&#x2013;95).
24: Herman Melville (1819&#x2013;91).
25: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1819&#x2013;94).
26: Walt Whitman (1819&#x2013;92).
27: Harriet Tubman (1820&#x2013;1913).
28: Andrew Carnegie (1835&#x2013;1919).
29: Mark Twain (1835&#x2013;1910).
30: J.P. Morgan (1837&#x2013;1913).
31: John D. Rockefeller (1839&#x2013;1937).
32: Thomas Alva Edison (1847&#x2013;1931).
33: Alexander Graham Bell (1847&#x2013;1922).
34: Louis Sullivan (1856&#x2013;1924).
35: Booker T. Washington (1856&#x2013;1915).
36: Theodore Roosevelt (1858&#x2013;1919).
37: John Dewey (1859&#x2013;1952).
38: Jane Addams (1860&#x2013;1935).
39: Henry Ford (1863&#x2013;1947).
40: William Randolph Hearst (1863&#x2013;1951).
41: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867&#x2013;1959).
42: Wilbur (1867&#x2013;1912) and Orville (1871&#x2013;1948) Wright.
43: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868&#x2013;1963).
44: D.W. Griffith (1875&#x2013;1948).
45: Margaret Sanger (1879&#x2013;1966).
46: Albert Einstein (1879&#x2013;1955).
47: Samuel Goldwyn (1879&#x2013;1974) and Louis B. Mayer (1885&#x2013;1957).
48: George Catlett Marshall (1880&#x2013;1959).
49: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882&#x2013;1945).
50: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884&#x2013;1962).
51: Ezra Pound (1885&#x2013;1972).
52: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890&#x2013;1969).
53: Cole Porter (1891&#x2013;1964).
54: Earl Warren (1891&#x2013;1974).
55: J. Edgar Hoover (1895&#x2013;1972).
56: William Faulkner (1897&#x2013;1962).
57: George Gershwin (1898&#x2013;1937).
58: Ernest Hemingway (1899&#x2013;1961).
59: Louis Armstrong (1901&#x2013;71).
60: Walt Disney (1901&#x2013;66).
61: Enrico Fermi (1901&#x2013;54).
62: Ray Kroc (1902&#x2013;84).
63: Benjamin Spock (1903&#x2013;98).
64: J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904&#x2013;67).
65: Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904&#x2013;91).
66: Rachel Carson (1907&#x2013;64).
67: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908&#x2013;73).
68: Joseph R. Mccarthy (1908&#x2013;57).
69: Edward R. Murrow (1908&#x2013;65).
70: Ronald W. Reagan (1911&#x2013;2004).
71: Jackson Pollock (1912&#x2013;56).
72: Richard Nixon (1913&#x2013;94).
73: Rosa Parks (1913&#x2013;2005).
74: Jonas Edward Salk (1914&#x2013;95).
75: Orson Welles (1915&#x2013;85).
76: John F. Kennedy (1917&#x2013;63).
77: Leonard Bernstein (1918&#x2013;90).
78: Billy Graham (B. 1918).
79: Jackie Robinson (1919&#x2013;72).
80: Betty Friedan (1921&#x2013;2006).
81: Johnny Carson (1925&#x2013;2005).
82: Malcolm X (1925&#x2013;65).
83: Walter Cronkite (B. 1926).
84: Marilyn Monroe (1926&#x2013;62).
85: Cesar Chavez (1927&#x2013;93).
86: Andy Warhol (1928&#x2013;87).
87: James Dewey Watson (B. 1928).
88: Martin Luther King, Jr (1929&#x2013;68).
89: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929&#x2013;94).
90: Ralph Nader (B. 1934).
91: Elvis Presley (1935&#x2013;77).
92: Ted Turner (B. 1938).
93: Bob Dylan (B. 1941).
94: Muhammad Ali (B. 1942).
95: Steven Spielberg (B. 1947).
96: Al Gore (B. 1948).
97: Oprah Winfrey (B. 1954).
98: Bill Gates (B. 1955).
99: Steve Jobs (B. 1955).
100: Madonna (B. 1958).
101: Michael Jordan (B. 1963).
102: Larry Page (B. 1973) and Sergey Brin (B. 1973).
Index.

Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Americans.css-1p8rvzy{position:absolute;padding-left:8px;}

Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Americans