First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Volume 2 by Marian Morton PAPERBACK

First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Volume 2\nby Marian Morton\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Marian Morton\nTitle: First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Volume 2\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2006\nEdition: 2nd edition\nISBN-13: 9781881089988\nISBN-10: 1881089983\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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.