American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries

American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries
ISBN-10
0816068836
ISBN-13
9780816068838
Category
Businesspeople
Pages
433
Language
English
Published
2009-01-01
Publisher
Infobase Publishing
Author
Charles W. Carey

Description

This A to Z biographical dictionary contains 260 entries on important Americans from colonial times to the present. Each entry begins with a short description of the person's importance, then the entry provides the person's birth date and information, and proceeds chronologically though his/her life. Suggestions for further reading follow each entry. There is a topical introduction to the book, a bibliography at the end of the book, two subject indexes, and a general index.

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