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Title: Concise Dictionary of American Biography
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons/Macmillan Library Reference USA
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0684805499
ISBN 13: 9780684805498
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 5th or later Edition
Condition: New

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With the addition of newly condensed biographies from Supplement 9 (1994) and Supplement 10 (1995), the dictionary now includes entries on all 19,173 persons treated in the parent set and its supplements. The 1063 new entries cover outstanding Americans who died prior to January 1, 1981, including Margaret Mead, Duke Ellington, Charles Lindbergh, and Jesse Owens. This edition retains the fourth's occupation index, and introduces a new birthplaces index. Edited under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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