The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law

The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
Title The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law PDF eBook
Author Roger K. Newman
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 637
Release 2009-01-01
Genre Reference
ISBN 0300113005

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This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others

Dictionary of American Library Biography

Dictionary of American Library Biography
Title Dictionary of American Library Biography PDF eBook
Author Donald G. Davis
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 287
Release 2003-01-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0313053391

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This second supplement to DALB, the Dictionary of American Library Biography (1978), adds 77 notable, deceased members of the library and archival communities to the 302 entries in the main volume and the 51 entries in the first supplement (1990). The second supplement includes primarily those figures who died between 1987 and the end of the year 2000, though some 13 entries provide sketches for notable persons whose death dates are somewhat earlier and who were not included in earlier works. Among the entries are a number of African Americans, and nearly one-half of the entries are women. Some 80 contributors from the United States and Canada provided sketches, many based on original source material. This supplement follows the practice and format of the earlier volumes, though it allows presidents of the American Library Association to compete for inclusion with other nominations.

Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography

Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography
Title Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography PDF eBook
Author Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 205
Release 1990-09-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0313080380

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This work records the accomplishments of the leaders of library science with 51 thoroughly researched biographies of individuals whose contributions have profoundly influenced the profession's history. The biographical sketches, ranging in length from 1,400 to 4,000 words, were researched, written, and reviewed by noted authorities in the library and information science community.

American Library History

American Library History
Title American Library History PDF eBook
Author Arthur P. Young
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Pages 486
Release 1988
Genre Education
ISBN 9780810821385

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...a leaping departure in comprehensiveness, organizational format, and accessibility through indexing...A magnificent contribution to the study of American library history. --LIBRARIES & CULTURE ...a work of enormous and painstaking scholarship. --LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD (UK)

Dictionary of American Library Biography

Dictionary of American Library Biography
Title Dictionary of American Library Biography PDF eBook
Author George Sylvan Bobinski
Publisher Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Pages 648
Release 1978
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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A biographical directory of United States political leaders.

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography
Title Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography PDF eBook
Author Mary K. Mannix
Publisher American Library Association
Pages 589
Release 2015-01-14
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0838912966

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Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Title The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries PDF eBook
Author David S. Zubatsky
Publisher
Pages 68
Release 1979
Genre Academic libraries
ISBN

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