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American Characters : Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits
American Characters Selections from the National Portrait Gallery Accompanied by Literary Portraits Author:R. W. B. Lewis, Nancy Lewis This delightful book brings together 160 famous American figures from Pocahontas to Louis Armstrong, providing both visual and verbal portraits to illuminate their places in American life. The portraiture-paintings, sculptures, photographs, cartoons-and the literary images-eyewitness accounts, memoirs, poems, letters, and biographies-are accompa... more »nied by lively and informative commentary by the editors.« less