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Author : Mary Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography
ISBN : OCLC:1193363465
Author : Mary Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610690867
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.
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : United States
ISBN : 0439709997
Short biographies of American personalities.
Author : Publishing Fulcrum Publishing,Robert C. Baron,Samuel Scinta
Publisher : Fulcrum Pub
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1555917003
If you had to select 100 Americans who most affected life in the 20th century, who would you choose? Millenium 2000---20th Century America: 100 Influential People takes a look at 100 Americans who greatly influenced life during the century that brought the United States to the world's center stage, a century that has been called the "American century." From Woodrow Wilson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jane Addams to Frank Lloyd Wright, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Wright Brothers, this group includes leaders from all sectors of American life. A short biography offers detail on the successes, breakthroughs, and occasional failures of these 100 luminaries. This thought-provoking look at 20th century America is sure to be reviewed, discussed, and debated as we approach the next 100 years.
Author : Peter Dreier
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781568586946
A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted— because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools. You can't find it on the major television networks. In popular media, the most persistent interpreter of America's radical past is Glenn Beck, who teaches viewers a wildly inaccurate history of unions, civil rights, and the American Left. The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond, is the perfect antidote.
Author : Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838912959
Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Author : Brian Fairbanks
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826505026
A corrupt old Democrat. A surging Republican populist. The Democrat, hounded by corruption allegations; the Republican, dogged by business failures and ties to white supremacists. The Republican turned out thousands of screaming supporters for speeches blaming illegal immigrants and crime on the Democrats, and the Democrat plummeted in the polls. Sound familiar? The '91 Louisiana Governor's race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the general election—and he was going to lose. Then a little-known state committeewoman stepped in with evidence of Duke's nefarious past. Could her evidence be enough to sway the minds of fired-up voters, or would Louisiana welcome a far-right radical into the highest office in the state? Journalist Brian Fairbanks explores how the final showdown between Duke and Edwards in November 1991 led to a major shift in our national politics, as well as the rise of the radical right and white supremacist groups, and how history repeated itself in the 2016 presidential election. The story of these political "wizards," almost forgotten by history, remains eerily prescient and disturbingly relevant, and a compulsive page-turner.
Author : Jamie J. Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216041184
This two-volume work celebrates 50 notable achievements of African Americans, highlighting black contributions to U.S. history and examining the ways black accomplishments shaped American culture. This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique look at the African American experience, from the arrival of the first 20 Africans at Jamestown through the launch of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Ferguson Protests. It illustrates subjects such as the Jim Crow period, the Brown v. Board of Education case that overturned segregation, Jackie Robinson's landmark integration of major league baseball, and the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. Drawing from almost 400 years of U.S. history, the work documents the experiences and impact of black people on every aspect of American life. Presented chronologically, the selected events each include at least one primary source to provide the reader with a first-person perspective. These range from excerpts of speeches given by famous African American figures, to programs from the March on Washington. The remarkable stories collected here bear witness to the strength of a group of people who chose to survive and found ways to work collectively to force America to live up to the promise of its founding.
Author : Robert C. Baron,Samuel Scinta
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 155591277X
Contains biographies of 100 influential twentieth century Americans.
Author : Helen Kooiman Hosier
Publisher : Revell
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0800757289
From Elizabeth Dole to Mary Kay, from Fanny Crosby to Annie Dillard, here is a century of women who made a difference. Great family reading.
Author : Peter Dreier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political activists
ISBN : 1784020664
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, offers a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond, is the perfect antidote.
Author : Michael H. Hart
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806513500
Listing of 100 people from around the world and from many different fields of endeavor, whose actions--the author has determined--have had, or will have, the greatest influence on the course of history.
Author : Kevin Markey
Publisher : Meredith Corporation
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography
ISBN : PSU:000044245016
This photo-filled celebration of extraordinary 20th-century women highlights women's contributions in politics, child care, science, education, athletics, literature, entertainment, art, and more. 200+ photos. **Barbara Walters is hosting a 90-minute TV special based on " Ladies' Home Journal's" list of the 20th-century's most important women on Friday, April 30, 1999, at 9:30 PM, Eastern Daylight Time on ABC-TV. The special will include Barbara's interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, and Gloria Steinem.
Author : Ian Whitelaw,Julie Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1435122534
Author : Carl Jensen
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609803063
Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act into law; "Queen of the Muckrakers" Ida Mae Tarbell, whose McClure magazine exposés led to the dissolution of Standard Oil's monopoly; and Lincoln Steffens, a reporter who unearthed corruption in both municipal and federal governments. You'll also meet Margaret Sanger, the former nurse who coined the term "birth control"; George Seldes, the most censored journalist in American history; Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck; environmentalist Rachel Carson; National Organization of Women founder Betty Friedan; African American activist Malcolm X; consumer advocate Ralph Nader; and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters whose Watergate break-in coverage brought down President Richard Nixon. The courageous writers Jensen includes in this deftly researched volume dedicated their lives to fight for social, civil, political and environmental rights with their mighty pens.