American National Biography

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American National Biography is written by Mark Christopher Carnes and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195222024 (ISBN 10) and 9780195222029 (ISBN 13).

American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.