Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books.

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Kellman, Steven G. | Copyright information

EDITED BY MARK C. CARNES OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2002, 315 PAGES, $26.00

Despite this work's subtitle, it is not quite accurate to claim that the 50 Americans commemorated in Invisible Giants missed the history books, since all appear in at least one important one, American National Biography. An editor of that 25-volume opus, Mark C. Carnes, canvassed 50 writers, politicians, scholars, and other figures whose accomplishments might have earned them, too, a place in Ameri...

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