George Washington Carver: An American Biography [Hardcover]

Rackham Holt (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Doubleday (June 1963)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385030452
• ISBN-13: 978-0385030458
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,132,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars George Washington Carver by Rackham Holt, May 27, 2000

By	J. J. Roberts (Young Harris, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: George Washington Carver: An American Biography (Hardcover)

This is an exceptionally well written biography of one of histories truly great scientists. The power of his intellect developed through many years of struggle and emerged to provide us and the World with a gentle giant. He was a scientist who had no limits to his capacity to study and contribute to all. This book served as a guide for my father who lectured to many audiences about the valuable accmplishments of Dr. Carver. We presented that book and my father's lecture notes to Tuskegee recently.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A good subject badly done, March 15, 2003

By	Richard Frantz Jr. (Cheshire, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: George Washington Carver: An American Biography (Hardcover)

I fondly remember reading a fascinating biography of George Washington Carver when I was much younger...this wasn't it.

This book reads like a series of short anecdotes about Dr. Carver, with very little connecting them. It can be confusing with it's bad cohesion and tendancy to wander off track.

I knew I was in trouble on page one when I couldn't figure out what year it was talking about. Paragraph one talks about the great news of the the 13th amendment ending slavery in 1865. Paragraph 2 and 3 talk about Dr. Carver being born in 1860 or '61, but it isn't clear that the narration has jump anti-chronologically here.

I don't know what the target age is for this book. I think a High School Freshman could handle most of it. But I had to go to a dictionary to look up the word self-abnegation.

My advice? Do read a biography of the great and fascinating scientist/naturalist George Washington Carver. Don't make it this one; there are better ones out there.

4.0 out of 5 stars I REALLY LIKED READING ABOUT SUCH A GREAT AFRICAN AMERICAN., March 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: George Washington Carver: An American Biography (Hardcover)

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A EXTRAODRINARY MAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. HE WAS A GREAT AMERICAN WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE WORLD AS A SCIENTIST, HUMANITARIAN, AND AND AMBASSADOR OF GOOD WILL. ONE THING THAT MAKES THIS BOOK UNIQUE IS THAT IT WAS PUBLISHED SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH, SO MANY PEOPLE THAT KNEW HIM WERE STILL ALIVE. I WOULD RECCOMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYOME WHO IS INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT G. W. CARVER.