Edited by Alden Whitman

This volume provides concise biographies of 508 principal architects of reform in America from the seventeenth century to modern times, including movements for religious tolerance, abolition, freedom of speech, Native American rights, racial and sexual equality, universal suffrage, labor rights, prison reform, and temperance. Sketches include bibliographies of books and other sources, and in most cases a portrait.

◘ 930 pp.
◘ Includes some portraits

◘ 1985 (second printing, 1989)
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0705-X
◘ $175
◘ $195 (outside U.S. and Canada)