1001 People Who Made America - Alan Axelrod
1001 PEOPLE WHO MADE AMERICA
BY ALAN AXELROD
For Anita and Ian
Contents
Preface
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Preface
History as a succession of events is at most only half-history. The rest is all about the people behind the events. The English essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle understood this, writing back in 1840. “For, as I take it,” he declared, “…History…is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.”
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