Concise Dictionary of American Biography

Concise Dictionary of American Biography PDF

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Published: 1997

Total Pages: 906

ISBN-13: 9780684805498

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Contains 19,173 alphabetically arranged entries that provide brief biographical information about notable Americans who died prior to January 1, 1981; indexed by occupations and birthplaces.

Concise Dictionary of American Biography

Concise Dictionary of American Biography PDF

Author: American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on the Dictionary of American Biography

Publisher: New York : Scribner

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 1300

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This one-volume abridgment of the Dictionary of American biography includes the 14,870 entries of the parent work in reduced form. Coverage is limited to persons no longer living and includes "explorers, frontiersmen, artists and scientists, craftsmen, inventors, businessmen, surgeons and physicians, feminists, scholars, politicians and statesmen"--Publisher's note.

Dictionary of American Biography

Dictionary of American Biography PDF

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Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1112

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Contains six indexes to the ten-volume edition and supplements one through ten of the "Dictionary of American Biography" including subjects of biographies, contributors, birthplaces, schools and colleges, occupations, and topics.

Concise Dictionary of American Biography

Concise Dictionary of American Biography PDF

Author: American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 1558

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This one-volume abridgment of the Dictionary of American biography contains concise versions of all 18,110 biographies contained in the original work and the eight supplement volumes. It also includes 1,026 biographies of figures who died between 1961 and 1970, as well as a 170-page listing of all subjects by occupation (in some 1,000 fields of endeavor). Edited under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR