Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books

Mark C. Carnes9780195168839, 0195168836

Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory. In order to celebrate and call attention to these lives, Oxford University Press asked fifty accomplished personalities from a diverse range of interests to each select a person from the 24-volume American National Biography that they felt deserved more attention. In Invisible Giants, the biographies of these forgotten figures appear alongside the often-personal comments of their selectors. We discover the man who inspired Sherwin Nuland to become a doctor, the writer Jacques Barzun considers America

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Table of contents :
EEn……Page 1
Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books……Page 2
Copyright Info……Page 5
TOC……Page 6
Introduction……Page 8
Johnny Ace……Page 18
James Agee……Page 22
Jessie Daniel Ames……Page 27
Roger Nash Baldwin……Page 31
George Bancroft……Page 38
Béla Bartók……Page 47
Sterling A. Brown……Page 52
A.P. Carter and Sara Carter……Page 57
John Jay Chapman……Page 62
Leon F. Czolgosz……Page 67
Robert Latou Dickinson……Page 72
Dorothy Draper……Page 77
Payl Laurence Dunbar……Page 82
John England……Page 89
Oliver Evans……Page 93
Dorothy Fields……Page 99
Charles Grandison Finney……Page 104
Arthur J. Goldberg……Page 111
Emma Goldman……Page 116
Adolphus Washington Greely……Page 124
Nathanael Greene……Page 129
Charles Tomlinson Griffes……Page 135
John Hoskins Griscom……Page 139
William Halsted……Page 143
Fannie Lou Hamer……Page 148
Handsome Lake……Page 152
Herman Haupt……Page 157
DuBose Heyward……Page 165
Henry Hornbostel……Page 169
James Gibbons Huneker……Page 174
Blind Lemon Jefferson……Page 180
Murray Kempton……Page 185
Walter Lippmann……Page 191
Malcolm X……Page 203
Rocky Marciano……Page 210
Adolf Meyer……Page 217
Lindley Murray……Page 224
Bronislava Nijinska……Page 229
Albert Jay Nock……Page 236
Fairfield Porter……Page 239
Dawn Powell……Page 245
Gisela Richter……Page 250
Bayard Rustin……Page 255
Sequoyah……Page 260
Joseph Smith……Page 264
Melvin B. Tolson……Page 274
Felix Francisco Varela y Morales……Page 280
DeWitt Wallace……Page 285
Ida B. Wells-Barnett……Page 290
Frank W. Woolworth……Page 295
Authors of Articles from the American National Biography……Page 301
Sources and Further Readings……Page 303
The Selectors……Page 325