Author: Alexander Chalmers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The General Biographical Dictionary
Author: Alexander Chalmers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The General Biographical Dictionary
Author: Alexander Chalmers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Who's who of the Colored Race
Author: Frank Lincoln Mather
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A General Biographical Dictionary
Author: John Gorton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Author: Joan Bakewell
Publisher: Chambers
ISBN: 9780550106933
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dictionaries of biography.
Publisher: Chambers
ISBN: 9780550106933
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dictionaries of biography.
The General Biographical Dictionary:
Author: Alexander Chalmers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The General Biographical Dictionary
Author: Alexander Chalmers
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The General Biographical Dictionary:
Author:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The General Biographical Dictionary
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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