Who's THE american in history? let today be the "help a HS student day".

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<p>I just started a biography of Thurgood Marshall by Juan Williams. You could make a pretty strong case for him. If you want to go Pop Culture I think you could do a great deal with Bob Dylan. </p>

<p>How about Alexander Hamilton? Chernow’s biography is excellent.</p>

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<p>Teddy Roosevelt is a great choice! For biographies on him try:</p>

<p>Theodore Roosevelt by William H. Harbaugh (UVA)
The Republican Roosevelt by John M. Blum</p>

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<p>Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution by Dunn</p>

<p>This assumes you aren’t choosing FDR. Black was the second longest serving member of the Supreme Court 1937-1971.</p>

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<p>Today, more people own copies of People Magazine than the Constitution. Imagine.</p>

<p>Actually although I used to hang on to an old copy of People magazine in which an old boyfriend was featured- I don’t read it or even see it at the drs office!
my copy of [AMERICA:</a> The BOOK!](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446532681/002-5514447-4481622?v=glance&n=283155]AMERICA:”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446532681/002-5514447-4481622?v=glance&n=283155) however came with a hard back copy of the constituition of the United States.</p>

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<p>You can make a good case for almost all of these nominees. But let me add 3-4 names: </p>

<p>Martin Luther King Jr., on the theory that the biggest movement of the 20th century was the sea change in our society of which he was the focal point.</p>

<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little lady who caused the big war”. Probably not the most influential American, but a choice, given the fact that post 1850, the Civil War was probably the seminal event.</p>

<p>Lastly, either Alexander Graham Bell or the man who invented the transister. The 20th century will probably be known as either the computer age or the electronic age.</p>

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<p>parentofbear: My grandmother used to date Hugo Black ! She thought he was great - they both worked in the same office in Alabama.</p>

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<p>Ther isn’t even a close second. Period.</p>

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<p>Elvis Presley.</p>

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<p>“God made man, Samuel Colt made them equal”</p>

<p>Samuel Colt no doubt.</p>

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<p>[Mother</a> Jones](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones]Mother”>Mother Jones - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>I say do a top nuclear scientist, like J. Robert Oppenheimer or Edward Teller. I did a biography project on Oppenheimer for English and read a biography by Goodchild. However, I think the biography entitled American Prometheus is also good.</p>

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<p>FountainSiren - this time you got it right. Philo T., without a doubt.</p>

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<p>Pick whoever interests you. The purpose of this type of assignment is to argue your point, and support it. There is no right or wrong.</p>

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<p>thats it…whoever interests you, and who you can get enough relevent information on to make for a meaty paper with substance</p>

<p>What about Carnegie, or Rockefeller or Sage</p>

<p>What about Orwell…</p>

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<p>Another thought that occurred to me is Mark Twain.</p>

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<p>Henry Ford – for mass producing the automobile and changing forever not only the American landscape but our appreciation (or lack of) of it.</p>

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<p>Orwell was British.</p>

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<p>Carnegie was a Scot.</p>

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<p>I think it was A. Lincoln. Initially he was lukewarm about slavery. After he came to Washington and had experience there he knew the importance of the matter. Mind you, England abolished slavery in 1756.</p>

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<p>I think Ida Tarbell is THE american…</p>