Famous Americans of recent times.
By: By James Parton.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company
Published: 1883
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
Subjects: United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Papers originally published in the North American review and other periodicals.
Table of contents: title: Henry Clay.; title: Daniel Webster.; title: John C. Calhoun.; title: John Randolph.; title: Stephen Girard and his college.; title: James Gordon Bennett and the New York herald.; title: Charles Goodyear.; title: Henry Ward Beecher and his church.; title: Commodore Vanderbilt.; title: Theodosia Burr.; title: John Jacob Astor.