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 RevolutionariesoEdmund Burke and John James; Ardent AbolitionistsoWilliam Wilberforce and Frederick Douglas; Soldiers of FortuneoDuke of Wellington and Andrew Jackson; Indomitable LadiesoFlorence Nightingale and Clara Barton; Votaries of the LawoFrederick E. Pollock and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Sister ReformersoMillicent Garrett Fawcett and Mary Ritter Beard; Tribunes of the Working ClassesoJames Keir Hardie and Eugene V. Debs; Kindred SpiritsoCecil Spring Rice and Theodore Roosevelt; Opposite Numbers?oDavid Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson; and Great Men of the CenturyoWinston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt.