American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits
by Lewis, R. W. B., and Lewis, Nancy
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. xviii, 412 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This volume brings together 160 famous American figures from Pocahontas to Louis Armstrong, providing visual and verbal portraits of their place in American life. The portraiture is paired with literary images taken from eyewitness accounts, memoirs, poems, letters and biographies." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Puritans and Colonials; The Early Republic: Citizens and Interpreters; American Renaissance: Science and letters; The Civil War Years; American Indian Leaders; The Gilded Decades; Entering the Twentieth Century; Faces on the Public Scene: Through the 1920s; The Harlem Renaissance; The Champions; Writers and Artists: The Second Flowering; Faces on the Public Scene; The 1930s to the 1970s; Artists of Entertainment; Commentary.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.
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- Title
- American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits
- Author
- Lewis, R. W. B., and Lewis, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300079451
- ISBN 13
- 9780300079456
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Museums; Genre & Subject / Portraiture; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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