George Washington Carver - A Life

Informationen zum Autor Christina Vella was the author of Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba , coauthor of The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance , and a visiting professor at Tulane University. Klappentext Christina Vella offers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, supporters, and those he loved. Despite the exceptional trajectory of his career, Carver was not immune to the racism of the Jim Crow era or the privations and hardships of the Great Depression and two world wars. Yet throughout this tumultuous period, his scientific achievements aligned him with equally extraordinary friends, including Teddy Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Henry A. Wallace, and Henry Ford.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Vella
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780807160749
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-6074-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Southern Biography; Southern Biography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous