Concise Dictionary of American biography.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1273
Subjects: United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Description: This one-volume abridgment of the Dictionary of American biography includes the 14,870 entries of the parent work in reduced form. Coverage is limited to persons no longer living and includes "explorers, frontiersmen, artists and scientists, craftsmen, inventors, businessmen, surgeons and physicians, feminists, scholars, politicians and statesmen"--Publisher's note.