Little Visits with Great Americans: Intimate Portraits of Progressive Era Leaders in Industry, Reform, Science, Arts, and Public Service
by Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean Howells, Helen Keller, Russell H. Conwell, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Burroughs, Charles Dana Gibson, James Whitcomb Riley, Samuel Gompers, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram Stevens Maxim, Hazen S. Pingree, Marshall Field, John Wanamaker, Sir Thomas Lipton, Darius Ogden Mills, Russell Sage, Lyman Judson Gage, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert C. Clowry, Herbert H. Vreeland, Nelson A. Miles, Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M. Depew, Jonathan P. Dolliver, Thomas C. Platt, Tom L. Johnson, Jacob Gould Schurman, Edwin Markham, General Lew Wallace, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alice Barber Stephens, Frederic Remington, Homer Davenport, Frederick Burr Opper, F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, Henry Merwin Shrady, Marshall P. Wilder, John Philip Sousa, Helen Miller Gould, Nathan Strauss, Frank W. Gunsaulus, Robert Collyer, Robert Laird Borden, Goldwin Smith, S. N. Parent, Andrew G. Blair, James Loudon, Sir William C. Van Horne, Samuel Jones, Philip D. Armour, John B. Herreshoff, Lillian Nordica
This collection brings together intimate portraits of prominent Progressive Era figures from industry, reform, science, the arts, invention, journalism, and public service. Featuring names such as Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and Thomas Edison, it surveys a remarkably broad range of influential personalities.
About This Book
Little Visits with Great Americans presents intimate portraits of notable figures associated with the Progressive Era.
The collection spans industry, reform, science, the arts, invention, journalism, and public service.
Its subjects include Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Thomas Edison, Samuel Gompers, John Philip Sousa, and many other prominent Americans and public figures.
With its broad range of personalities and professions, the book offers a historical look at influential people from a period of significant social, cultural, and economic change.
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