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Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Mary Cross, PhD, is emerita professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, where she was chairman of the English Department. Her published works include Praeger's Bloggerati, Twitterati: How Blogs and Twitter Are Transforming Popular Culture and Greenwood's Madonna: A Biography. She was editor of Greenwood's A Century of American Icons and Praeger's Advertising and Culture: Theoretical Perspectives.

Reviews

Articles include portraits of the individuals, biographical information, and an overview of the person's impact and significance. The articles are written at a level accessible to the general public, making this a potentially useful starting point for research.
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