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

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

American Council of Learned Societies
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History 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 treasured 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
Jessie Daniel Ames
Rodger Nash Baldwin
Bela Bartok
Sterling Brown
John Jay Chapman
John England
Oliver Evans
Dorothy Fields
Charles Grandison Finney
Arthur Goldberg
Adolphus Washington Greely
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
William Halsted
Fannie Lou Hamer
Handsome Lake
Herman Haupt
DuBois Heyward
Henry Hornbostel
James Gibbons Huneker
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Christopher Isherwood
Walter Lippmann
Melvin Beaunorus Tolson
Bronislava Nijinska
Albert Jay Nock
Fairfield Porter
Dawn Powell
Bayard Rustin
Sequoyah
James McCune Smith
Joseph Smith
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Dewitt Wallace
"
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
Release
May 16, 2002
ISBN 13
9780195154177

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

American Council of Learned Societies
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
History 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 treasured 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
Jessie Daniel Ames
Rodger Nash Baldwin
Bela Bartok
Sterling Brown
John Jay Chapman
John England
Oliver Evans
Dorothy Fields
Charles Grandison Finney
Arthur Goldberg
Adolphus Washington Greely
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
William Halsted
Fannie Lou Hamer
Handsome Lake
Herman Haupt
DuBois Heyward
Henry Hornbostel
James Gibbons Huneker
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Christopher Isherwood
Walter Lippmann
Melvin Beaunorus Tolson
Bronislava Nijinska
Albert Jay Nock
Fairfield Porter
Dawn Powell
Bayard Rustin
Sequoyah
James McCune Smith
Joseph Smith
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Dewitt Wallace
"
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
Release
May 16, 2002
ISBN 13
9780195154177

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