The Greenhouse Effect: Life on a Warmer Planet

by Rebecca L. Johnson

Book Overview

Raymond Walters, Jr. presents the definitive biography of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), recounting sixty years that the Swiss-born diplomat served his adopted country as a congressional leader, Secretary of the Treasury, financier, and ambassador. Gallatin was a founder of the House Committee on Finance (later the Ways and Means Committee), a member of the new Democratic-Republican Party, and an active politician who opposed the Federalist Party and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822515911
• ISBN13: 9780822515913
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.7" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7