Author: William Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary
Author: William Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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ISBN:
Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
Author: Roger K. Newman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300113005
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300113005
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others
An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary
Author: William Allen
Publisher: Cambridge [Mass.] : Published by William Hilliard ... Hilliard & Metcalf, printers
ISBN:
Category : Biography Dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge [Mass.] : Published by William Hilliard ... Hilliard & Metcalf, printers
ISBN:
Category : Biography Dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, Etc
Author: William Allen (D.D., President of Bowdoin College.)
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
Author: Rossiter Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary
Author: William Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900
Author: Carl Waldman
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816042531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Profiles the lives of a number of people who played vital roles in the unfolding of Native American history until 1900, including chiefs, prophets, artists, and scholars.
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816042531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Profiles the lives of a number of people who played vital roles in the unfolding of Native American history until 1900, including chiefs, prophets, artists, and scholars.
Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders
Author: John N. Ingham
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9780313239106
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9780313239106
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary
Author: William Allen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436768023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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ISBN: 9781436768023
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary
Author: William Allen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332065564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Excerpt from An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in North America From Its First Settlement, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States Tm: following work presents itself to the public With no claims to attention, but such, as are founded upon the interest, which may be felt in the lives of Americans Finding himself a few years ago in a literary retirement, with no important duties, which pressed immedi ately upon him, the author conceived the plan of this Dictionary He was desirous of bringing to the citizens of the United States more information, than was generally possessed, respecting the illustrious men of former times, the benefactors and ornaments of this country, who have passed away He persuaded himself, that if he could col lect the fragments of bmgraphy, which were buried in the mass of American history, or scattered amidst a multitude of tracts of variou!' kinds, and could fashion these materials into a regular form, so as to place before the eye our great and good men, if not in their full di mensions, yet in their true shape, he should render an acceptable ser vice to his countrymen This work With no little labor he has now completed and the inexperienced artist, in his first essay, can hope only, that his design Will be commended He wishes chiefly, that as the images of departed excellence are surveyed, the spirit, which an imated them, may be caught by the beholder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332065564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Excerpt from An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in North America From Its First Settlement, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States Tm: following work presents itself to the public With no claims to attention, but such, as are founded upon the interest, which may be felt in the lives of Americans Finding himself a few years ago in a literary retirement, with no important duties, which pressed immedi ately upon him, the author conceived the plan of this Dictionary He was desirous of bringing to the citizens of the United States more information, than was generally possessed, respecting the illustrious men of former times, the benefactors and ornaments of this country, who have passed away He persuaded himself, that if he could col lect the fragments of bmgraphy, which were buried in the mass of American history, or scattered amidst a multitude of tracts of variou!' kinds, and could fashion these materials into a regular form, so as to place before the eye our great and good men, if not in their full di mensions, yet in their true shape, he should render an acceptable ser vice to his countrymen This work With no little labor he has now completed and the inexperienced artist, in his first essay, can hope only, that his design Will be commended He wishes chiefly, that as the images of departed excellence are surveyed, the spirit, which an imated them, may be caught by the beholder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.