Dictionary of American Biography: -- Index to Volumes I-X -- (Subscription Edition)

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The 20-volume set records the lives of 19,173 celebrated women and men who have made significant contributions to American life. Included are 19,173 biographies covering peoples who died through 1980 in 10 base volumes and 10 supplements. In addition, a comprehensive index to the entire set is available. Explorers, artists, scientists, inventors, business leaders, criminals, political figures, diplomats, and outstanding individuals from over 700 fields of endeavor are chronicled in signed biographies by specialists.

<:;st> Cited in BCL3 and Sheehy, the Dictionary of American Biography records the lives (after their passing) of notable individuals who have made significant contributions to American life and culture. Following the 20 base volumes published between 1927 and 1936, supplementary volumes cover persons who died in succeeding five- year periods. Supplement Nine, with 544 articles, covers persons who died who died between 1971 and 1975, including such notable figures as Louis Armstrong, Jack Benny, Duke Ellington, Betty Grable, Mahalia Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Charles Lindbergh, Elijah Muhammad, Igor Stravinsky, Harry S. Truman, and Earl Warren. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.