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The selective coverage of leaders includes key figures in American history often studied in the core curriculum, all U.S. presidents, great colonial leaders, the framers of the U.S. Constitution, leaders of the early republic, and major contributors to the U.S. government, even if they never held formal office. Examples include Frederick Douglass, Helen Gehagan Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., Jeannette Rankin, Janet Reno, Nellie Tayloe Ross, and Margaret Chase Smith. The 11 supplemental biographies are of contemporary key government leaders to bring the set up to date, including Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Jesse Jackson, and Colin Powell.
Arrangement is alphabetical. Information at the head of each essay includes the leader's name, birth date and place, death date and place when appropriate, and a brief paragraph summarizing the leader's major achievements. The essays are substantial, averaging eight to ten pages, divided into three subsections: "Early Life," "Life's Work," and "Summary," which surveys the leader's significance and long-term impact on U.S. history. Each essay also includes a bibliography that lists the basic texts and biographies about the leader. All bibliographies have been updated to include books and articles published during the 1980s and 1990s, which are both significant additions to the literature about the respective leader and easy to find in most public libraries. Some of the essays include pictures of the subject. All essays are signed. A list of contributors, along with their academic affiliations, appears at the beginning of volume one. Volume three concludes with a time line of U.S. leaders, which lists all leaders by birth year; an "Index of Presidents"; and a name index.
Information on many of these leaders is readily available in other reference tools, including Dictionary of American Biography and Current Biography. Libraries owning the larger series mentioned above will already have much of what is included here, although the information in these volumes may be more current. This set is recommended as a convenient, supplemental source for high-school and public libraries, especially those that do not have Great Lives from History.
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