An Anglo-American Plutarch

An Anglo-American Plutarch emulates Plutarch by comparing and contrasting the lives of ten famous British and ten famous American historical figures. Each of the pairs is given an historical introduction, followed by interpretive essays on each of the paired lives, and a summary of their historical significance. Ten pairs of men and women are presented, the first of these treated is Benjamin Franklin who is seen as both American and English. Other pairs include: Conservative RevolutionariesEdmund Burke and John James; Ardent AbolitionistsWilliam Wilberforce and Frederick Douglas; Soldiers of FortuneDuke of Wellington and Andrew Jackson; Indomitable LadiesFlorence Nightingale and Clara Barton; Votaries of the LawFrederick E. Pollock and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Sister ReformersMillicent Garrett Fawcett and Mary Ritter Beard; Tribunes of the Working ClassesJames Keir Hardie and Eugene V. Debs; Kindred SpiritsCecil Spring Rice and Theodore Roosevelt; Opposite Numbers?David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson; and Great Men of the CenturyWinston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt.