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BOOKS AND READING IN THE LIVES OF NOTABLE AMERICANS BOOKS AND READING IN THE LIVES OF NOTABLE AMERICANS BOOKS AND READING IN THE LIVES OF NOTABLE AMERICANS A Biographical Sourcebook JOHN A. MCCROSSAN Gerard B. McCabe, Advisory Editor GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCrossan, John Anthony, 1930– Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans : a biographical sourcebook / John A. McCrossan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–313–30376–2 (alk. paper) 1. Celebrities—Books and reading—United States. I. Title. Z1039.C45M34 2000 028′.9—dc21 99–045598 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2000 by John A. McCrossan All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99–045598 ISBN: 0–313–30376–2 First published in 2000 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For all of my students and for those of all ages who love books and reading. CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1 Jane Addams 6 Arthur Ashe, Jr. 12 James Baldwin 17 Clara Barton 23 Humphrey Bogart 28 Andrew Carnegie 32 Rachel Carson 37 Willa Cather 42 Cesar Chavez 48 Shirley Chisholm 53 Sandra Cisneros 58 Eugene V. Debs 63 Cecil B. DeMille 69 Frederick Douglass 73 viii Contents Bob Dylan 78 Thomas A. Edison 83 Albert Einstein 88 Benjamin Franklin 93 Bill Gates 99 Robert Goddard 103 Helen Hayes 107 Zora Neale Hurston 112 Thomas Jefferson 118 Helen Keller 123 John F. Kennedy 130 Martin Luther King, Jr. 136 Stephen King 142 Robert E. Lee 146 Douglas MacArthur 151 Madonna 157 Horace Mann 162 Marilyn Monroe 167 Martina Navratilova 173 Georgia O’Keeffe 177 Frances Perkins 182 Jeannette Rankin 187 Ronald Reagan 192 Eleanor Roosevelt 197 Beverly Sills 202 Steven Spielberg 207 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 212 Harriet Beecher Stowe 220 Harry S Truman 225 Gene Tunney 232
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