Facts on File library of American history

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Acheson, Edward Goodrich -- Amos, Wally -- Anderson, Joseph Reid -- Anderson, Mary -- Arden, Elizabeth -- Armstrong, Edwin Howard -- Ash, Mary Kay -- Astor, John Jacob -- Baekeland, Leo Hendrik -- Banuelos, Romana Acosta -- Barnum, P.T. -- Beach, Alfred Ely -- Bechtel, Stephen -- Bell, Alexander Graham -- Bendix, Vincent Hugo -- Berliner, Emile -- Bezos, Jeffrey -- Birdseye, Clarence -- Bissell, George Henry, and Edwin Laurentide Drake -- Blackton, James Stuart -- Blake, Lyman Reed -- Blanchard, Thomas -- Blodgett, Katharine Burr -- Bloomberg, Michael -- Bloomingdale, Alfred Schiffer -- Bluhdorn, Charles G. -- Bogardus, James -- Bok, Edward William -- Borden, Gail -- Brin, Sergey, and Larry Page -- Brown, John -- Brown, Marie Dutton -- Brown, Rachel Fuller, and Elizabeth Lee Hazen -- Brush, Charles Francis -- Buffett, Warren -- Buick, David Dunbar -- Burnett, Leo -- Burroughs, William Seward -- Busch, Adolphus -- Candler, Asa Griggs -- Capone, Al -- Carlson, Chester Floyd -- Carnegie, Andrew -- Carnegie, Dale -- Carothers, Wallace Hume -- Carrier, Willis Haviland -- Cartwright, Alexander Joy, Jr. -- Carver, George Washington -- Case, J.I. -- Case, Steve -- Chouteau, Rene Auguste -- Claiborne, Liz -- Clark, James H. -- Cohen, Ben, and Jerry Greenfield -- Colgate, William -- Colt, Samuel -- Cone, Moses Herman, and Ceasar Cone -- Coolidge, William David -- Cooper, Kent -- Cooper, Peter -- Cornell, Ezra -- Coston, Martha Hunt -- Cottrell, Frederick Gardner -- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond -- Dache, Lilly -- Daly, Marcus -- Davenport, Thomas -- Davis, Benjamin Jefferson -- Day, Benjamin Henry -- Deere, John -- De Forest, Lee -- Dell, Michael -- Disney, Walt -- Donovan, Marion O'Brien -- Dorrance, John Thompson -- Drake, Samuel -- Drew, Richard Gurley -- Duke, James Buchanan -- du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee -- Durant, William Crapo -- Duryea, Charles Edgar and James Frank Duryea -- Eastman, George -- Edgerton, Harold Eugene -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Elion, Gertrude Belle -- Ellison, Larry -- Ellison, William --

Profiles important Americans from colonial times to the present. Provides in-depth information on robber barons and their counterparts as well as current visionaries such as Bill Gates, and biographies from financier Warren Buffet to music mogul Jay-Z

Ertegun, Ahmet -- Evans, Oliver -- Everleigh, Ada, and Minna Everleigh -- Fairchild, Sherman -- Farnsworth, Philo Taylor -- Field, Cyrus West -- Field, Marshall -- Filo, David, and Jerry Yang -- Fitch, John -- Flagler, Henry Morrison -- Flanigen, Edith Marie -- Fleischmann, Charles Louis -- Flora, William -- Forbes, Malcolm Stevenson -- Ford, Henry -- Forten, James -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frasch, Herman -- Fuller, Alfred Carl -- Fuller, R. Buckminster--Gabe, Frances -- Gates, Bill -- Gates, John Wayne -- Gayley, James -- Genovese, Vito -- Gernsback, Hugo -- Getty, J. Paul -- Giannini, Amadeo Peter -- Gillette, King Camp -- Glidden, Joseph Farwell -- Godfrey, Thomas -- Goldman, Sylvan Nathan -- Goldmark, Peter Carl -- Goodyear, Charles -- Gordy, Berry, Jr. -- Gorrie, John -- Gould, Jay -- Graham, Bette Nesmith -- Graham, Katherine --Grandin, Temple -- Gray, Elisha -- Green, Hetty -- Gregg, John Robert -- Griffin, Merv -- Grove, Andrew -- Hall, Charles Martin -- Hammer, Armand -- Handler, Ruth -- Harriman, E.H. -- Hearst, William Randolph -- Hefner, Hugh Marston, and Christie Ann Hefner -- Helmsley, Harry, and Leona Helmsley -- Henry, Vickie Lea -- Henson, Jim -- Hershey, Milton Snavely -- Hewitt, Peter Cooper -- Hewlett, William, and David Packard -- Hill, James Jerome -- Hilton, Conrad Nicholson -- Hollerith, Herman -- Hopper, Edna Wallace -- Hopper, Grace -- Houdry, Eugene Jules -- House, Royal Earl -- Howe, Elias -- Hughes, Howard Robard, Sr., and Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. -- Huizenga, Harry Wayne -- Hunt, H.L. -- Hunt, John Wesley -- Hyatt, John Wesley -- Icahn, Carl Celian -- Insull, Samuel -- Jacuzzi, Candido -- Jay-Z -- Jobs, Steven Paul, and Stephen Gary Wozniak -- Jones, Amanda Theodosia -- Joyner, Marjorie Stewart -- Julian, Percy Lavon -- Kaiser, Henry John -- Keith, B.F., and E.F. Albee -- Keith, Minor Cooper -- Kellogg, John Harvey, and W.K. Kellogg -- Kelly, William -- Kennedy, Joseph Patrick -- Kettering, Charles Franklin -- King, Don -- King, Richard -- Kluge, John Werner -- Knight, Margaret -- Knight, Sarah Kemble -- Kraft, James Lewis -- Kroc, Ray -- Kwolek, Stephanie Louise --

Land, Edwin Herbert -- Latimer, Lewis Howard -- Lauder, Estee -- Lear, William Powell -- Leslie, Miriam -- Levitt, Abraham -- Little, Arthur Dehon -- Little, Royal -- Lockheed, Malcolm, and Allan Lockheed -- Luce, Henry Robinson -- Marriott, John Willard -- Marsh, Charles Wesley -- Masters, Sybilla Righton -- Matzeliger, Jan Ernst -- Mauchly, John William, and John Presper Eckert, Jr. -- Mayer, Louis B. -- McCormick, Cyrus Hall -- McCoy, Elijah -- McMahon, Vince -- Mergenthaler, Ottmar -- Milken, Michael Robert -- Monaghan, Tom -- Morgan, Garrett Augustus -- Morgan, J.P. -- Morris, Robert -- Morse, Samuel F.B. -- Muller, Gertrude Agnes -- Munsey, Frank Andrew -- Naismith, James A. -- Newmark, Craig -- Noble, Edward John -- Norton, Charles Hotchkiss -- Noyce, Robert Norton -- Oakes, Ziba B. -- Ochoa, Esteban -- Olds, Ransom Eli -- Otis, Elisha Graves -- Parker, Colonel Tom -- Perkins, Thomas Handasyd -- Perot, Ross -- Pickens, T. Boone -- Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas -- Pinkerton, Allan -- Pinkham, Lydia Estes -- Pittman, Robert Warren -- Polese, Kim -- Post, C.W. -- Pritzker, Abram Nicholas -- Pulitzer, Joseph -- Pullman, George Mortimer -- Pupin, Michael Idvorsky -- Reuther, Walter -- Rock, Arthur -- Rockefeller, John Davison -- Rosenthal, Ida -- Rozelle, Pete -- Rudkin, Margaret Fogarty -- Sanders, Harland David -- Sarnoff, David -- Schwab, Charles -- Sears, Richard Warren -- Sholes, Christopher Latham -- Siebert, Muriel -- Simmons, Russell -- Singer, Isaac Merritt -- Slater, Samuel -- Smith, Frederick -- Smith, Willi -- Sperry, Elmer Ambrose -- Stanley, Francis Edgar, and Freelan Oscar Stanley -- Stern, David -- Stevens, Robert Livingston -- Stewart, Martha -- Strauss, Levi -- Strong, Harriett -- Sutter, John -- Swift, Gustavus Franklin -- Tesla, Nikola -- Thompson, J. Walter -- Thomson, Samuel -- Thorp, John -- Tilghman, Benjamin Chew, and Richard Albert Tilghman -- Trippe, Juan Terry -- Tupper, Earl Silas -- Turner, Ted Van Andel, Jay, and Rich DeVos -- Vanderbilt, Cornelius -- Wachner, Linda Joy -- Walker, Madame C.J. -- Walker, Maggie -- Waller, Frederic -- Walton, Sam -- Wanamaker, John -- Wang, An -- Ward, Montgomery -- Watson, Jr., Thomas J. -- Wells, Henry -- Westinghouse, George -- Weyerhaeuser, Frederick -- White, Eartha Mary Magdalene -- Whitney, Eli -- Wilson, Kemmons -- Winfrey, Oprah -- Woods, Granville T. -- Woolworth, F.W. -- Wright, Wilbur, and Orville Wright -- Wrigley, William, Jr. Yale, Linus, Jr. -- Yerkes, Charles Tyson -- Zuckerberg, Mark -- Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma