A GROUP OF FAMOUS LEADERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. by Hawkins,…

A GROUP OF FAMOUS LEADERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. by Hawkins, May S, < >

A GROUP OF FAMOUS LEADERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Edition: First edition.

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., (1926.). Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon book of biographies of those who were influential in American history, written for older children, and designed to be used in schools. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Divided into four sections based on the changing needs of the United States, from the first section which focuses on the birth of the country to the last which focuses on the 20th century. Included in Part 1: William Bradfrod, Lord Baltimore, Thomas Hooker, William Penn, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton; Part 2: John Marshall, Andrew Jackson, Robert Fulton, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, Stephen Douglas; Part 3: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton, John A Logan, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cyrus Hall McCormick, James Russell Lowell, Henry Ward Beecher and in Part 4: Frances Elizabeth Willard, Andrew Carnegie, Horace Mann, Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison. Questions at the end of each selection.Index, 448 pp.

Condition: Good in light gold and blue cloth with black lettering. Some minor wear and rubbing to the covers, prev owner's name, a few stray pencil marks (presumably from a teacher who used this.) Sturdy binding,

Book ID: 40282
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