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Lamb, Brian

 
9780812933390: Booknotes: Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
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ISBN 10: 0812933397 ISBN 13: 9780812933390
Editorial: Random House USA Inc, 2002

Sinopsis

A collection of writings on famous people of the modern era focuses on presidents, poets, scientists, and other notable men and women of the twentieth century. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Brian Lamb is the founding CEO of C-SPAN. He has been the host of C-SPAN's Booknotes since its debut in 1989, an experiment that quickly became an oasis of literary programming on television. The author is directing all of his royalties from the sale of this book to the not-for-profit C-SPAN Educational foundation.

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s with the most admired biographers of our time on the people who have forged our contemporary landscape

C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb invites readers into a virtual conversation -- via the art of biography -- with the legends and luminaries who have helped define America. This informal dictionary of biography peers into the personalities who have left a mark on our world -- a Who's Who of American history, and the next best thing to chatting directly with the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Elijah Muhammad, Amelia Earhart, Katharine Graham, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank McCourt, Bill Clinton, and many others.

Based on C-SPAN's popular weekly Booknotes program, this absorbing collection of life stories presents illuminating profiles and often surprising details from our favorite biographers. Booknotes follows the evolution of American history chronologically, and covers the lives of writers and thinke

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Editorial
Random House USA Inc
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0812933397
ISBN 13 
9780812933390
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
471
Editor
Lamb Brian
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