There were giants in the land
Subtitle: twenty-eight historic Americans as seen by twenty-eight contemporary Americans
By: with an introduction by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., illustrated by Charles Child.
Contributors: United States. Dept. of the Treasury.
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: United States -- Biography.
Notes: "Written at the suggestion of the Treasury department."--Introd.

--Thomas Paine, by Struthers Burt.--Woodrow Wilson, by F.L. Allen.--Lafayette, by W.E. Woodward.--Thomas Jefferson, by Claude Bowers.--Frederick Douglass, by Angelo Herndon.--Robert E. Lee, by D.S. Freeman.--Paul Revere, by Esther Forbes.--Henry David Thoreau, by H.S. Canby.--Grover Cleveland, by Allan Nevins.--James Lawrence, by J.P. Marquand.--George Washington, by Rupert Hughes.--Francis Marion, by Helena H. Smith.--Carl Schurz, by Wendell Willkie.--Benjamin Cardozo, by Fannie Hurst.--Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg.
Table of contents: title: Daniel Webster, by S.V. Bene t.; title: Theodore Roosevelt, by Julian Street.; title: Dr. Joseph Goldberger, by Paul de Kruif.; title: Julia Ward Howe, by Alexander Woollcott.; title: James Cardinal Gibbons, by William Agar.; title: Andrew Jackson, by Marquis James.; title: Nathan Hale, by Nancy Hale.; title: Roger Williams, by Stanley High.; title: Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren.; title: Lew Wallace, by Booth Tarkington.; title: Walt Whitman, by Mark Van Doren.; title: Alexander Hamilton, by Lyman Bryson.; title: William Jennings Bryan, by Henry Commager.