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First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Volume 2

Marian Morton editor Russell Duncan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:12th Oct '06

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The novelist William Dean Howells described autobiography as the most democratic of American literary genres. Autobiography has offered a voice to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and others whose writings have often been excluded from the literary canon. The men and women presented here observed, shaped, or participated in many of the most exciting and important events of American history. First Person Past lets them speak for themselves.

From the hundreds of American autobiographies, the editors have chosen twelve for each of Volumes I and II of First Person Past because they are interesting history and good literature. Their literary and historical virtues have been preserved as edited for inclusion in each volume.

ISBN: 9781881089988

Dimensions: 231mm x 152mm x 16mm

Weight: 318g

232 pages

2nd edition