By Joseph Nathan Kane, Steven Anzovin, and Janet Podell

Enjoy the Reconstructed and More Accessible Famous First Facts:
Related entries are grouped together under subject categories and subcategories
Within each category and subcategory, entries are arranged chronologically
Each book includes five indexes: subject, name, year, day, and place.

The most popular reference of its kind, Famous First Facts has earned the accolades of reviewers and a place on library reference shelves nationwide. The new Fifth Edition of this classic has been extensively updated to include the latest "firsts," and a new structure has been devised for easier access to every fact. Famous First Facts, Fifth Edition lists thousands of inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history, including about 1,000 new entries.

Approximately 1,000 new entries cover little-known historical and contemporary material as:

The First:

• Female secretary of state

• American "Robin Hood"

• Bombing raid on the United States

• Chinese restaurant in the U.S.

• Phone book with Internet addresses

• Daughter of the American Revolution who was African-American

• Man to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge

• Military censorship of the press

• Mother in space

• Political smear campaign run by media specialists

• President sworn in using a nickname

• Quack doctor

• Ready-mix food

• Rock and roll song to hit number 1 in the pop charts

• Ship sunk by a whale

New, More Useful Organization!
This revised Fifth Edition has been entirely reorganized to facilitate access. Related entries are grouped together under broad subject categories and up to two subcategories. Subject categories are arranged alphabetically. Within each category or sub-category, entries are arranged chronologically. Each entry has been assigned a four-digit number, beginning with 1001, for easy, direct access from the work's five thorough indexes.
 

◘ 750 pp.
◘ Hardcover
◘ 1998
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0930-3
◘ $180
◘ $195 (outside the U.S. and Canada)

Famous First Facts, Electronic Edition

Reflecting the content of the recently released Fifth Edition in print, Famous First Facts, Electronic Edition is searchable by subject categories, keywords, personal names, city, state, date, and year. Coverage includes thousands of inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history, from the date of the earliest human artifacts found in America, in 10,000 B.C.E., through 1997.

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