American National Biography

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American National Biography is written by John A. Garraty and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199771499 (ISBN 10) and 9780199771493 (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.