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Gilded Age and Progressive Era Biographies. By Rebecca Valentine. 1 vol. 251 p. $63.00.

The 25 people whose biographies are found here include Jane Addams, Grover Cleveland, Ty Cobb, John Dewey, Thomas Edison, Emma Goldman, Jay Gould Edward Harriman, Benjamin Harrison, Lewis Hine, Scott Joplin, Jack London, William McKinley, John Muir, Thomas Nast, Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Sitting Bull, Hannah Solomon, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mark Twain, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Frances Willard. These 8-10 page biographies begin with birth and death dates and places and their title, a quote, and end with brief bibliographies of books and Web sites. They offer a good start for someone who will be writing a much longer biography later. It is always good to have comparative information for those who download information from a Web site.