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Michael Smith's Book Report. __George Washington Carver__ Author: Lenny Holt

George Washington Carver, one of the greatest known African-American's in the United States. This book is written by Lenny Holt, he studied George's history for a very long time. George Washington Carver, was a great inventor and scientist. He would have poor farmers grow crops for not only food, but for products to improve their daily life.

George was born 1864. He would always try to create an alternative crop from a different crop. One of his greatest alternative's were the peanut. He created 105 differents uses of peanuts instead of other important crops. The use of cotten back then soiled the land. So, Carver found an alternative for the cotten problem, using peanuts.

Carver, was an nice, caring, and loving man. When he would hear about a problem dealing with agricultural, he would always try to find an alternative for its source. Carver's soultions helped fight racism between to kinds, and culture crisis. He was very well respected, even though he was humilated and thought of as a crazy man. He fought his way up and turned out as one of the greatest African-American's known.

Carver was good at finding alternatives for cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and nitroglycerin. And, he would find the alternatives using common crops. Even though he was descriminated by the white scientists, he never let that keep that from his studies.

I admire that he was very limited with his supplies but still found more soultions then the other scientists that had a lot more supplies than him. I like how the color of his skin didn't conivence him that he was less dominant than the other race. that he used his great mind and made simple crops, into great soultions in the world.

I think this book does give an honest account to this person's life and work. It explains how he fought racism and the limits he had to deal with. Also it explains his difficulties in his life and his home, and how he was born on a little farm and ended up to be one of the smartest and most famous people in the United States of America.