This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties.
Series Foreword Acknowledgments Timeline: Events in the Life of George Washington Carver Chapter 1 Early Years Chapter 2 Wandering and Wondering Chapter 3 The Iowa State Years Chapter 4 Trouble at Tuskegee Chapter 5 Carver the Teacher Chapter 6 The Effort to Transform Southern Agriculture Chapter 7 World War I Chapter 8 The Peanut Man Chapter 9 Carver and His Boys Chapter 10 Suffering Humanity Chapter 11 Dealing with the Great Depression Chapter 12 The Final Years Chapter 13 George Washington Carver in American Memory Selected Bibliography Index
Gary R. Kremer, PhD, is the executive director of the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection and adjunct professor of history at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.
Concise and clearly written. . . . George Washington Carver
succeeds in its general purpose of renewing interest in an
important and iconic figure of southern agricultural history and of
the black experience. . . . [H]e was a rather influential person
during his era, and Kremer demonstrates Carver's relevance while
introducing him to a new generation of students.
*The Journal of Southern History*
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