Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans : a biographical sourcebook

287 Pages·2000·1.05 MB·English

by  McCrossan, John Anthony

BOOKS AND READING
IN THE LIVES OF
NOTABLE AMERICANS
BOOKS AND READING
IN THE LIVES OF
NOTABLE AMERICANS
BOOKS AND READING
IN THE LIVES OF
NOTABLE AMERICANS
A Biographical Sourcebook
JOHN A. MCCROSSAN
Gerard B. McCabe, Advisory Editor
GREENWOOD PRESS
Westport, Connecticut • London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCrossan, John Anthony, 1930–
Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans : a biographical sourcebook /
John A. McCrossan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–313–30376–2 (alk. paper)
1. Celebrities—Books and reading—United States. I. Title.
Z1039.C45M34 2000
028′.9—dc21 99–045598
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 2000 by John A. McCrossan
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99–045598
ISBN: 0–313–30376–2
First published in 2000
Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
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Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984).
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For all of my students and for those of all ages who love books
and reading.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1
Jane Addams 6
Arthur Ashe, Jr. 12
James Baldwin 17
Clara Barton 23
Humphrey Bogart 28
Andrew Carnegie 32
Rachel Carson 37
Willa Cather 42
Cesar Chavez 48
Shirley Chisholm 53
Sandra Cisneros 58
Eugene V. Debs 63
Cecil B. DeMille 69
Frederick Douglass 73
viii Contents
Bob Dylan 78
Thomas A. Edison 83
Albert Einstein 88
Benjamin Franklin 93
Bill Gates 99
Robert Goddard 103
Helen Hayes 107
Zora Neale Hurston 112
Thomas Jefferson 118
Helen Keller 123
John F. Kennedy 130
Martin Luther King, Jr. 136
Stephen King 142
Robert E. Lee 146
Douglas MacArthur 151
Madonna 157
Horace Mann 162
Marilyn Monroe 167
Martina Navratilova 173
Georgia O’Keeffe 177
Frances Perkins 182
Jeannette Rankin 187
Ronald Reagan 192
Eleanor Roosevelt 197
Beverly Sills 202
Steven Spielberg 207
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 212
Harriet Beecher Stowe 220
Harry S Truman 225
Gene Tunney 232