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100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America

100 PEOPLE WHO CHANGED 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA 2V

U.S. Biography

Biography & Genealogy

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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.

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POST SECONDARY FOUR YEAR

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Duration Unit Of Measure

Transaction Type

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
Timeline of the American Century.
1: J. P. Morgan (1837&#x2013;1913).
2: Thomas Edison (1847&#x2013;1931).
3: Louis H. Sullivan (1856&#x2013;1924).
4: Theodore Roosevelt (1858&#x2013;1919).
5: John Dewey (1859&#x2013;1952).
6: Juliette Gordon Low (1860&#x2013;1927).
7: Henry Ford (1863&#x2013;1947).
8: William Randolph Hearst (1863&#x2013;1951).
9: Wilbur (1867&#x2013;1912) and Orville (1871&#x2013;1948) Wright.
10: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868&#x2013;1963).
11: L. L. Bean (1872&#x2013;1967).
12: D. W. Griffith (1875&#x2013;1948).
13: Margaret Sanger (1879&#x2013;1966).
14: Frances Perkins (1880&#x2013;1965).
15: Cecil B. DeMille (1881&#x2013;1959).
16: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882&#x2013;1945).
17: Eugene O&#x2019;Neill (1888&#x2013;1953).
18: T. S. Eliot (1888&#x2013;1965).
19: Edwin Powell Hubble (1889&#x2013;1953).
20: Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890&#x2013;1954).
21: David Sarnoff (1891&#x2013;1971).
22: Leo Burnett (1891&#x2013;1971).
23: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892&#x2013;1971).
24: Alfred C. Kinsey (1894&#x2013;1956).
25: John Ford (1894&#x2013;1973).
26: Martha Graham (1894&#x2013;1991).
27: Babe Ruth (1895&#x2013;1948).
28: Bill Wilson (1895&#x2013;1971).
29: Walter Winchell (1897&#x2013;1972).
30: George Gershwin (1898&#x2013;1937).
31: Henry R. Luce (1898&#x2013;1967).
32: Al Capone (1899&#x2013;1947).
33: Ernest Hemingway (1899&#x2013;1961).
34: Linus Pauling (1901&#x2013;1994).
35: Walt Disney (1901&#x2013;1966).
36: Louis Armstrong (1901&#x2013;1971).
37: Ansel Adams (1902&#x2013;1984).
38: Ray Kroc (1902&#x2013;1984).
39: Benjamin McLane Spock (1903&#x2013;1998).
40: Robert Oppenheimer (1904&#x2013;1967).
41: Estee Lauder (1906&#x2013;2004).
42: Philo T. Farnsworth (1906&#x2013;1971).
43: Rachel Carson (1907&#x2013;1964).
44: William J. Levitt (1907&#x2013;1994).
45: Edward R. Murrow (1908&#x2013;1965).
46: Thurgood Marshall (1908&#x2013;1993).
47: Milton Berle (1908&#x2013;2002).
48: Abraham Maslow (1908&#x2013;1970).
49: William Shockley (1910&#x2013;1989).
50: Ronald Reagan (1911&#x2013;2004).
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
1: Jackson Pollock (1912&#x2013;1956).
2: Milton Friedman (1912&#x2013;2006).
3: Vince Lombardi (1913&#x2013;1970).
4: Jonas Salk (1914 &#x2013;1995).
5: Jack LaLanne (1914&#x2013;2011).
6: Paul Samuelson (1915&#x2013;2009).
7: Ruth Handler (1916&#x2013;2002) and the Barbie Doll (1959&#x2013;).
8: Robert Lowell (1917&#x2013;1977).
9: Sam Walton (1918&#x2013;1962).
10: Billy Graham (1918&#x2013;).
11: Leonard Bernstein (1918&#x2013;1990).
12: Jackie Robinson (1919&#x2013;1972).
13: Denton Cooley (1920&#x2013;).
14: Isaac Asimov (1920&#x2013;1992).
15: Richard Avedon (1923&#x2013;2004).
16: Marlon Brando (1924&#x2013;2004).
17: Johnny Carson (1925&#x2013;2005).
18: Allen Ginsberg (1926&#x2013;1997).
19: Hugh Hefner (1926&#x2013;).
20: James Dewey Watson (1928&#x2013;).
21: Noam Chomsky (1928&#x2013;).
22: Andy Warhol (1928&#x2013;1987).
23: Joan Ganz Cooney (1929&#x2013;).
24: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929&#x2013;1968).
25: Berry Gordy Jr. (1929&#x2013;).
26: Warren E. Buffett (1930&#x2013;).
27: Sandra Day O&#x2019;Connor (1930&#x2013;).
28: Roone Arledge (1931&#x2013;2002).
29: Superman.
30: Gloria Steinem (1934&#x2013;).
31: Larry Kramer (1935&#x2013;).
32: Elvis Presley (1935&#x2013;1977).
33: Jim Brown (1936&#x2013;).
34: Jack Nicklaus (1940&#x2013;).
35: Bob Dylan (1941&#x2013;).
36: Martha Stewart (1941&#x2013;).
37: Muhammad Ali (1942&#x2013;).
38: R. Crumb (1943&#x2013;).
39: Billie Jean King (1943&#x2013;).
40: Robert Pittman (1953&#x2013;).
41: Oprah Winfrey (1954&#x2013;).
42: Bill Gates (1955&#x2013;).
43: Steve Jobs (1955&#x2013;2011).
44: Grandmaster Flash (1958&#x2013;).
45: Michael Jackson (1958&#x2013;2009).
46: Michael Jordan (1963&#x2013;).
47: Jimmy Wales (1966&#x2013;).
48: Larry Page (1973&#x2013;) and Sergey Brin (1973&#x2013;).
49: Mark Zuckerberg (1984&#x2013;).
50: Bart Simpson (1987&#x2013;).
Selected Bibliography.
Editorial Board.
Contributors.
Index.

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