100 people who changed 20th-century America

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100 people who changed 20th-century America

Mary Cross, editor

ABC-CLIO, c2013

  • : [set], hardcopy
  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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One hundred people who changed twentieth-century America

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注記

"Timeline of the American century": p. xv-xxx

Bibliography: p. 595-597

Includes index in v. 2

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内容説明

To what extent does a person's own success result in social transformation? This book offers 100 answers, providing thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change. 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience-change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to be accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences.

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VOLUME 1 Introduction Timeline of the American Century 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America J. P. Morgan (1837-1913) Thomas Edison (1847-1931) Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) John Dewey (1859-1952) Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927) Henry Ford (1863-1947) William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) L. L. Bean (1872-1967) D. W. Griffith (1875 -1948) Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Frances Perkins (1880 -1965) Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890-1954) David Sarnoff (1891-1971) Leo Burnett (1891-1971) Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) Alfred C. Kinsey (1894-1956) John Ford (1894-1973) Martha Graham (1894-1991) Babe Ruth (1895-1948) Bill Wilson (1895-1971) Walter Winchell (1897-1972) George Gershwin (1898-1937) Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) Al Capone (1899-1947) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Linus Pauling (1901-1994) Walt Disney (1901-1966) Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Ray Kroc (1902-1984) Benjamin McLane Spock (1903-1998) Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) Estee Lauder (1906-2004) Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971) Rachel Carson (1907-1964) William J. Levitt (1907-1994) Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) Milton Berle (1908-2002) Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) William Shockley (1910-1989) Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) VOLUME 2 Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Milton Friedman (1912-2006) Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) Jonas Salk (1914 -1995) Jack LaLanne (1914-2011) Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) Ruth Handler (1916-2002) and the Barbie Doll (1959-) Robert Lowell (1917-1977) Sam Walton (1918-1962) Billy Graham (1918-) Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) Denton Cooley (1920-) Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Richard Avedon (1923-2004) Marlon Brando (1924-2004) Johnny Carson (1925-2005) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Hugh Hefner (1926-) James Dewey Watson (1928-) Noam Chomsky (1928-) Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Joan Ganz Cooney (1929-) Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Berry Gordy Jr. (1929-) Warren E. Buffett (1930-) Sandra Day O'Connor (1930-) Roone Arledge (1931-2002) Superman Gloria Steinem (1934-) Larry Kramer (1935-) Elvis Presley (1935-1977) Jim Brown (1936-) Jack Nicklaus (1940-) Bob Dylan (1941-) Martha Stewart (1941-) Muhammad Ali (1942-) R. Crumb (1943-) Billie Jean King (1943-) Robert Pittman (1953-) Oprah Winfrey (1954-) Bill Gates (1955-) Steve Jobs (1955-2011) Grandmaster Flash (1958-) Michael Jackson (1958-2009) Michael Jordan (1963-) Jimmy Wales (1966-) Larry Page (1973-) and Sergey Brin (1973-) Mark Zuckerberg (1984-) Bart Simpson (1987-) Selected Bibliography Editorial Board Contributors Index

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