LEADER 05793nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910783354103321 005 20230607215422.0 010 $a0-19-771398-X 010 $a0-19-974074-7 010 $a1-280-56017-7 010 $a0-19-530340-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000029102 035 $a(EBL)3051859 035 $a(OCoLC)922952319 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000183457 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198765 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183457 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10196051 035 $a(PQKB)10582071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051859 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10085245 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL56017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241324 035 $a(OCoLC)935227049 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051859 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000029102 100 $a20011206d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInvisible giants$b[electronic resource] $efifty Americans who shaped the nation but missed the history books /$fedited by Mark Carnes 210 $aOxford [England] ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $a"All American National Biography entries copyright 2000 by the American Council of Learned Societies"--T.p. verso. 311 $a0-19-516883-6 311 $a0-19-515417-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-310) and index. 327 $a""Fannie Lou Hamer""""Handsome Lake""; ""Herman Haupt""; ""DuBose Heyward""; ""Henry Hornbostel""; ""James Gibbons Huneker""; ""Blind Lemon Jefferson""; ""Murray Kempton""; ""Walter Lippmann""; ""Malcolm X""; ""Rocky Marciano""; ""Adolf Meyer""; ""Lindley Murray""; ""Bronislava Nijinska""; ""Albert Jay Nock""; ""Fairfield Porter""; ""Dawn Powell""; ""Gisela Richter""; ""Bayard Rustin""; ""Sequoyah""; ""Joseph Smith""; ""Melvin B.Tolson""; ""Felix Francisco Varela y Morales""; ""DeWitt Wallace""; ""Ida B.Wells-Barnett""; ""Frank W.Woolworth"" 327 $a""Authors of Articles from the American National Biography""""Sources and Further Readings""; ""The Selectors"" 330 $aHistory records the accomplishments of individuals. For successive generations of Americans, iconic figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, and Emily Dickinson have been household names and role models, inspiring us all by the lessons their lives teach us. But some great Americans, just as worthy, never attain this recognition. Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of those who shaped the nation and its future have receded from public memory. In celebration of these lives-and to demonstrate the lasting power history's giants have over their successors-Oxford University Press recently asked fifty accomplished personalities from a diverse range of industries and interests to each select a person from the 24-volume American National Biography that they felt deserved more attention. The biographies of these forgotten figures appear alongside the often-personal comments of their selectors in Invisible Giants, a varied and lively collection of portraits celebrating history's forgotten and fading heroes. In Invisible Giants we discover the man who inspired Sherwin Nuland to become a doctor, the writer Jacques Barzun considers America's first cultural critic, and the woman who taught Tina Brown to bare her teeth. We learn of the poetry recited to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a boy, the magazine Helen Gurley Brown required every one of her editors to subscribe to, and the book Andy Rooney deems "better than the Bible and easier to understand." Whether encountering these figures for the first time or uncovering surprising details in the lives you thought you knew, today's public thinkers guide us on a journey into the deep folds of our rich biographical tapestry. Edited by Mark Carnes and published with the American Council of Learned Societies, Invisible Giants introduces one of the nation's most 330 8 $atreasured resources--The American National Biography--to a broad audience by presenting the architects of our country's past through the eyes of the architects of its future. Invisible Giants includes: James Agee (Sven Birkets) Jessie Daniel Ames (Alan Brinkley) Rodger Nash Baldwin (Richard Avedon) Bela Bartok (John Simon) Sterling Brown (Sharon Olds) John Jay Chapman (Jacques Barzun) John England (Andrew Greeley) Oliver Evans (Harold Evans) Dorothy Fields (David Lehman) Charles Grandison Finney (Edmund Morgan) Arthur Goldberg (Alan Dershowitz) Adolphus Washington Greely (Simon Winchester) Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Wayne Koestenbaum) William Halsted (Sherwin Nuland) Fannie Lou Hamer (Gloria Steinem) Handsome Lake (Wilma Mankiller) Herman Haupt (James McPherson) DuBois Heyward (Stephen Sondheim) Henry Hornbostel (Michael Graves) James Gibbons Huneker (Gary Giddins) Libbie Henrietta Hyman (Steven Jay Gould) Christopher Isherwood (Armistead Maupin) Walter Lippmann (Andy Rooney) Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (Rita Dove) Bronislava Nijinska (Joan Acocella) Albert Jay Nock (William F. 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