{"product_id":"9780195154177","title":"Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistory records the accomplishments of individuals. For successive generations of Americans, iconic figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, and Emily Dickinson have been household names and role models, inspiring us all by the lessons their lives teach us. But some great Americans, just as worthy, never attain this recognition. Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of those who shaped the nation and its future have receded from public memory. In celebration of these lives-and to demonstrate the lasting power history's giants have over their successors-Oxford University Press recently asked fifty accomplished personalities from a diverse range of industries and interests to each select a person from the 24-volume American National Biography that they felt deserved more attention. The biographies of these forgotten figures appear alongside the often-personal comments of their selectors in Invisible Giants, a varied and lively collection of portraits celebrating history's forgotten and fading heroes.\u003cbr\u003e In Invisible Giants we discover the man who inspired Sherwin Nuland to become a doctor, the writer Jacques Barzun considers America's first cultural critic, and the woman who taught Tina Brown to bare her teeth. We learn of the poetry recited to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a boy, the magazine Helen Gurley Brown required every one of her editors to subscribe to, and the book Andy Rooney deems \"better than the Bible and easier to understand.\" Whether encountering these figures for the first time or uncovering surprising details in the lives you thought you knew, today's public thinkers guide us on a journey into the deep folds of our rich biographical tapestry.\u003cbr\u003e Edited by Mark Carnes and published with the American Council of Learned Societies, Invisible Giants introduces one of the nation's most treasured resources—The American National Biography—to a broad audience by presenting the architects of our country's past through the eyes of the architects of its future.\u003cbr\u003e Invisible Giants includes: James Agee (Sven Birkets)\u003cbr\u003e Jessie Daniel Ames (Alan Brinkley)\u003cbr\u003e Rodger Nash Baldwin (Richard Avedon)\u003cbr\u003e Béla Bartók (John Simon)\u003cbr\u003e Sterling Brown (Sharon Olds)\u003cbr\u003e John Jay Chapman (Jacques Barzun)\u003cbr\u003e John England (Andrew Greeley)\u003cbr\u003e Oliver Evans (Harold Evans)\u003cbr\u003e Dorothy Fields (David Lehman)\u003cbr\u003e Charles Grandison Finney (Edmund Morgan)\u003cbr\u003e Arthur Goldberg (Alan Dershowitz)\u003cbr\u003e Adolphus Washington Greely (Simon Winchester)\u003cbr\u003e Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Wayne Koestenbaum)\u003cbr\u003e William Halsted (Sherwin Nuland)\u003cbr\u003e Fannie Lou Hamer (Gloria Steinem)\u003cbr\u003e Handsome Lake (Wilma Mankiller)\u003cbr\u003e Herman Haupt (James McPherson)\u003cbr\u003e DuBois Heyward (Stephen Sondheim)\u003cbr\u003e Henry Hornbostel (Michael Graves)\u003cbr\u003e James Gibbons Huneker (Gary Giddins)\u003cbr\u003e Libbie Henrietta Hyman (Steven Jay Gould)\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Isherwood (Armistead Maupin)\u003cbr\u003e Walter Lippmann (Andy Rooney)\u003cbr\u003e Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (Rita Dove)\u003cbr\u003e Bronislava Nijinska (Joan Acocella)\u003cbr\u003e Albert Jay Nock (William F. Buckley, Jr.)\u003cbr\u003e Fairfield Porter (Hilton Kramer)\u003cbr\u003e Dawn Powell (Fran Lebowitz)\u003cbr\u003e Bayard Rustin (Evan Wolfson)\u003cbr\u003e Sequoyah (William Least Heat-Moon)\u003cbr\u003e James McCune Smith (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Smith (Harold Bloom)\u003cbr\u003e Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Tina Brown)\u003cbr\u003e Dewitt Wallace (Helen Gurley Brown)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022843265264,"sku":"9780195154177","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195154177_p0.jpg?v=1763664704","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195154177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}