American characters
Subtitle: selections from the National Portrait Gallery, accompanied by literary portraits
By: R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Nancy.; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Portraits, American; United States -- Biography; United States -- Biography -- Portraits
Description: "This book brings together 160 famous American figures from Pocahontas to Louis Armstrong, providing visual and verbal portraits that illuminate their place in American life. The portraiture - painting, sculpture, photograph, or drawing - is paired with literary images taken from eyewitness accounts, memoirs, poems, letters, and biographies, and with lively and informative commentary by the editors, R. W. B. and Nancy Lewis. The whole is a rich addition to American cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.