100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 volumes]. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Cross.
• Editors: Cross, Mary
• Contents: VOLUME 1IntroductionTimeline of the American Century100 People Who Changed 20th-Century AmericaJ. 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) WrightWilliam 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 2Jackson 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)SupermanGloria 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 BibliographyEditorial BoardContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : ABC-CLIO
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (664 pages)
• Subjects: History -- United States -- 20th Century; History -- Reference; Reference -- Research; Autobiography: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216040774
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