William Faulkner

Carolyn Porter

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• In this newest volume in Oxford's Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of ... Lees meer

Henry Ford

Vincent Curcio

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented ... Lees meer

Roger Williams

Edwin S Gaustad

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• The founder of Rhode Island and of the first Baptist Church in America, an original and passionate advocate for religious freedom, a rare New England ... Lees meer

T. S. Eliot

Craig Raine, Douglas P Fry

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long ... Lees meer

Benjamin Franklin

Edwin S Gaustad

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the greatest man and orna... Lees meer

Benjamin Franklin

Edwin S Gaustad

• Paperback | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the greatest man and orna... Lees meer

Mark Twain

Larzer Ziff

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was... Lees meer

T. S. Eliot

Craig Raine

• Paperback | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• The twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult wr... Lees meer

Isaac Newton

Gale E Christianson

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• Quarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illitera... Lees meer

Artists, Writers, and Musicians

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scari... Lees meer

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G Edward White

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court.... Lees meer

Walt Whitman

David S Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, ... Lees meer

Philosophers and Religious Leaders

Moschovitis Group Inc, Christian Von Dehsen, Inc Staff Moschovitis Group

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• How did Elijah Muhammad's establishment of the Nation of Islam affect the civil rights movement in the United States? Philosophers and Religious Leade... Lees meer

Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors

Doris Simonis

• Hardcover | Engels | Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
• The first of four volumes in the landmark Lives and Legacies Oryx Press series, Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors profiles approximately 200 m... Lees meer