100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America

Author Mary Cross

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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Mary Cross

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ABC-CLIO

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Copyright

2012

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9781610690867

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

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.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
Timeline of the American Century.
1: J. P. Morgan (1837–1913).
2: Thomas Edison (1847–1931).
3: Louis H. Sullivan (1856–1924).
4: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919).
5: John Dewey (1859–1952).
6: Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927).
7: Henry Ford (1863–1947).
8: William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951).
9: Wilbur (1867–1912) and Orville (1871–1948) Wright.
10: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963).
11: L. L. Bean (1872–1967).
12: D. W. Griffith (1875–1948).
13: Margaret Sanger (1879–1966).
14: Frances Perkins (1880–1965).
15: Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959).
16: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945).
17: Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953).
18: T. S. Eliot (1888–1965).
19: Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953).
20: Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954).
21: David Sarnoff (1891–1971).
22: Leo Burnett (1891–1971).
23: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971).
24: Alfred C. Kinsey (1894–1956).
25: John Ford (1894–1973).
26: Martha Graham (1894–1991).
27: Babe Ruth (1895–1948).
28: Bill Wilson (1895–1971).
29: Walter Winchell (1897–1972).
30: George Gershwin (1898–1937).
31: Henry R. Luce (1898–1967).
32: Al Capone (1899–1947).
33: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961).
34: Linus Pauling (1901–1994).
35: Walt Disney (1901–1966).
36: Louis Armstrong (1901–1971).
37: Ansel Adams (1902–1984).
38: Ray Kroc (1902–1984).
39: Benjamin McLane Spock (1903–1998).
40: Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967).
41: Estee Lauder (1906–2004).
42: Philo T. Farnsworth (1906–1971).
43: Rachel Carson (1907–1964).
44: William J. Levitt (1907–1994).
45: Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965).
46: Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993).
47: Milton Berle (19
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