Title: A mirror for greatness : six Americans /
Authors: Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
Year: 1975
Subjects: United States Biography.
Abstract: What is the measure of greatness? And where is it found? This book looks at the strength and force of character of six heroic Americans who shaped our nation.
Contents: Benjamin Franklin: the bourgeois genius -- John Adams: the strength of integrity -- Thomas Jefferson: the all-purpose man -- Sojourner Truth: the home-made miracle -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: the first American scholar -- Henry David Thoreau: rebel with a cause.