Description: By concentrating on the biographers he has interviewed on his TV program "Booknotes" over the past decade, Brian Lamb has assembled another rich collection of in-depth profiles that readers everywhere and viewers of C-SPAN will be excited to buy. From those interviews he has chosen passages where the author talks with intimacy and insight about his/her subjects. The book is arranged chronologically by year of birth of each subject. The range of figures profiled primarily includes important figures in American history (Jefferson, Lincoln, Truman, etc.), with twenty-two U.S. presidents heading the list. There are also writers and thinkers (Emerson, Whitman, Thomas Paine), inventors and scientists (Edison, Einstein), and soldiers (Sam Houston, Custer, Patton). Each profile is preceded by a paragraph in which Brian Lamb introduces the author and his/her subject. Brian Lamb, who is admired by readers and viewers alike for his ability to get authors to really open up about their craft, here induces the great biographers of our time to talk about the figures who have truly shaped and defined our world.

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