The Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Americans (Britannica Guides)

Who do you think are the most influential Americans ever? Walt Disney or Benjamin Franklin? Rosa Parks or Oprah Winfrey? This book is an in-depth look at the men and women who changed the world's most powerful nation. Heroes and villains, film stars and physicists, generals and peaceniks. Each entry comes with a full biography of the individual and why they had such a powerful impact on America Shining the spotlight on a hundred men and women who really made a difference to the world's most powerful nation, this book features the lives and achievements of extraordinary Americans – presidents and sports figures, film stars and physicists, generals and Internet mavericks – from the age of the Founding Fathers to the present. Telling the stories of lives of men and women over the last 300 years, the book celebrates their achievements and presents a revealing history of the United States. Selected by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the book contains surprises and insights into the personalities that created America and is bound to cause debate. Who do think are the most influential Americans ever? Walt Disney or Benjamin Franklin? Rosa Parks or Oprah Winfrey? Let the debate begin. This book shines on a hundred men and women who really made a difference to the world's most powerful nation. Heroes and villains, film stars and physicists, generals and peaceniks. Each entry comes with a full biography of the individual and why they had such a powerful impact on America. Clear, accurate and meticulously researched, the series gives both the background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student or traveller Offers a look at the men and women who changed the world's most powerful nation: heroes and villains, film stars and physicists, and generals and peaceniks. Each entry comes with a biography of the individual and why they had such a powerful impact on America.