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9780300079456

American Characters : Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300079456

  • ISBN10:

    0300079451

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

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Summary

Portraits of 160 famous American figures--selected from the National Portrait Gallery--are highlighted and presented through paintings, sculptures, photos and cartoons. 160 illustrations, 69 in color.

Table of Contents

Cast of Characters viii
Director's Foreword xi
Alan Fern
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Puritans and Colonials
1(20)
The Early Republic: Citizens and Interpreters
21(39)
American Renaissance: Science and Letters
60(24)
The Civil War Years
84(31)
American Indian Leaders
115(20)
The Gilded Decades
135(35)
Entering the Twentieth Century
170(46)
Faces on the Public Scene: Through the 1920s
216(18)
The Harlem Renaissance
234(17)
The Champions
251(20)
Writers and Artists: The Second Flowering
271(50)
Faces on the Public Scene: The 1930s to the 1970s
321(26)
Artists of Entertainment
347(32)
Commentary 379(26)
Index 405

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