Written by the author of the "1001 Events That Made America" and the popular "What Every American Should Know about American History", this book contains profiles of 1001 Americans that capture the famous as well as infamous and the virtuous as well as notorious since the early days of our nation's history.

Sullivan to Muhammad Ali, Stephen Foster to Elvis, Edwin Booth to Marlon Brando, Washington Irving to Thomas Pynchon, Charles Wilson Peale to Andy Warhol - "1001 People Who Made America" provides a very human side to history.