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| Name: |
Milton Meltzer | | Birth Date: |
May 8, 1915 | | Place of Birth: |
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Milton Meltzer
4,167 words, approx. 14 pages
 As a nonfiction children's author, Milton Meltzer single-mindedly focuses upon the explication of lives devoted to the continuing struggle for human rights and social reform, effectively portraying the plights of downtrodden people oppressed by the... summary from source:
 Biography of Milton Meltzer
2,957 words, approx. 10 pages
Much of the subject matter in Milton Meltzer's nearly one hundred titles--poverty, religion, crime, peace, discrimination, slavery--concerns injustices especially common to America. "As a nonfiction children's author, Milton Meltzer single-mindedly... 
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 Milton Meltzer Information
240 words, approx. 1 pages
 Milton Meltzer (born May 8 1915) is an American historian and author best known for his history nonfiction books on Jewish, African-American and American history. Since the 1950s he has been a leading author of history books in the children's literature...
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 The Book Report Meltzer, Milton Ten Kings and the Worlds They Ruled.
11/01/2002: 302 words, approx. 1 pages 2002. 132pp. $21.95 hc. Orchard Books (Scholastic). 0-439-31293-0. Grades 5-8 This is a companion volume to Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power (Dutton Books, 1998, see review in January/February 1999 issue). With a minimum of words, Milton Meltzer covers the reasons why... summary from source:
The Horn Book Magazine Milton Meltzer.(winner of 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal)
07/01/2001: 1,200 words, approx. 4 pages At that terrible moment mid-life, when buying a sports car too often substitutes for a real turning, Milton Meltzer thought about making his life more meaningful. He had what his immigrant parents surely would have called a good situation: a successful job in advertising,...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by George P. Elliott
795 words, approx. 3 pages
[Though] Dorothea Lange's genius for seeing with a camera is what makes her important in the world and also intensifies the reader's interest in her, it is not that genius in itself which makes her a good subject for a biography. For that purpose, it matters much more that she talks well about herself and her work. Unlike many artists, she does not cover her traces as a creator. Reading [Milton Meltzer's Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life], one does not just contemplate the en... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Tchen
699 words, approx. 2 pages
When I received The Chinese Americans, my conditioned initial reaction was that it would probably be another poorly researched, poorly thought out and uncritical book about the history of Chinese in the U.S. To my pleasant surprise, I found the book quite good and thoroughly engaging. Meltzer is not only a competent social historian with an impressive number of books to his name; he is also a very good writer who presents material in a way that is far from dry and boring. Instead of giving the usual chronol... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Saul Maloff
570 words, approx. 2 pages
Milton Meltzer's ["Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust"] is an act of desperation—an act of piety and pity, wrath and love, despair and homage; but the motive force, the terrible sense of urgency which drives and animates it, is desperation. In an afterword, he notes that an authoritative study of American high school history textbooks, conducted nearly 30 years after World War II, revealed that "their treatment of Nazism was brief, bland, superficial, and misleadin...
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