Description |
432 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Robert E. Lee / Burke Davis -- Christopher Columbus / Samuel Eliot Morison -- Harry S. Truman -- Benjamin Franklin -- Thomas Merton -- A. J. Cronin -- Florence Nightingale / Lytton Strachey -- R.M.S. Titanic / Hanson Baldwin -- Henry David Thoreau -- J. W. N. Sullivan -- Edward VIII / Hector Bolitho -- Frederick Douglass / Shirley Graham -- Helen Keller -- A British Airman -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Louis Pasteur / Ariadne Gilbert -- Alexis C. Carrel -- Walter Reed / Paul de Kruif -- Albert Schweitzer -- Patrick Henry -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau -- John Wilkes Booth / Philip Van Doren Stern -- Francisco Pizarro / W. H. Prescott -- Enos Abijah Mills -- The Light Brigade / Cecil Woodham-Smith -- Henry Knox / Clay Perry -- Aaron Burr / Holmes Alexander -- Alexander Hamilton -- Booker T. Washington -- Abraham Lincoln / Carl Sandburg -- The Wright Brothers / Fred C. Kelly -- Enrico Caruso / Dorothy Caruso -- John Brown / Leonard Ehrlich -- Enrico Fermi / Laura Fermi -- Babe Ruth / Robert L. Slevin -- Winston Churchill -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- Madame Marie Curie / Eve Curie -- Ferdinand Magellan / Felix Riesenberg -- Dwight D. Eisenhower / Harry C. Butcher -- Fanklin Delano Roosevelt / John Gunther -- Admiral Richard E. Byrd -- Andrew Jackson / Gerald W. Johnson -- Salem, Massachusetts / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Herman Melville / Lewis Mumford -- Stephen Foster / Alexander Woollcott -- Mary White / William Allen White -- Ludwig van Beethoven / J. W. N. Sullivan -- Peter Freuchen -- Father Damien / John Farrow -- Socrates / Benjamin Jowett -- Joan of Arc / Frances Winwar -- Jesus |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Subject |
History -- Miscellanea.
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History -- Miscellanea. |
Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Added Author |
De Kay, George.
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