The Scottish 100: Portraits of History's Most Influential Scots [FIRST EDITION]

Bruce, Duncan A.

Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York, 2000

About this Item

As new condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The blank first free front endpaper contains a neatly scripted Father's Day Gift inscription. All other pages are in as new unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square as new unread condition (see photographs). "One hundred biographies celebrating seven centuries of Scots whose lives changed their world and ours. Adam Smith, Rachel Carson, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Arden, Rupert Murdoch -- however disparate their sympathies, however diverse their times or endeavors, whether in philosophy, conversation, literature, cosmetics or media ventures, they do have one significant trait in common: they all share a Scottish ancestry. So do the explorers Captain Cook and David Livingstone, the painters Jackson Pollock and Mary Cassatt, the poets Robert Burns and Lord Byron, the inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi, the statesmen ANdrew Jackson and Alexander Hamilton. From the battle-scarred life of the bravehearted Robert the Bruce, who won Sootland's independence from the English early in the fourteenth century, to the military exploits of John Paul Jones in the American Revolution, Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War, and General Douglas MacArthur in World War II and Korea, this voilume crosses centuries and circles the world in its presentation of history's one hundred most influential Scots. Its portraits include kings and queens, presidents and patriots, philosophers and philanthropists, architects and artists, engineers and athletes. With names like Andre Carnegie, John Knox, John Marshall, Edvard Grieg, Martha Graham, Thomas Edision, and James Watt, their achievemnts have built empires, reformed religion, defined justice, composed music, revolutionized dance, made pictures move, and built engines run by steam. In one hundred succinct biographies, here are the Scots worldwide who stand behind historical events and inventions and visions that have altered the way all of us live our lives." -- from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 006800

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Scottish 100: Portraits of History's ...

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition