Makers of the American century : a narrative in twenty-six lives /
Martin Walker.
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2000.
- xv, 393 p. : ill. ; 25 cm + hbk
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Teddy Roosevelt and the American Ambition -- Emma Goldman and the American Dissident -- "Black Jack" Pershing and the American Army -- Henry Ford and the American System -- Woodrow Wilson and American Idealism -- Babe Ruth and American Sports -- William Boeing and the American Airplane -- Duke Ellington and the American Sound -- Winston Churchill and the American Diaspora -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the American Space -- Lucky Luciano and the American Criminal -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Solution -- Katharine Hepburn and the American Star -- Walter Reuther and the American Worker -- John Steinbeck and the American Voice -- Albert Einstein and the American Refuge -- George Marshall and American Power -- William F. Buckley, Jr. and American Conservatism -- Richard Bissell and the American Spy -- Billy Graham and American Religion -- Walt Disney and American Entertainment -- Richard Nixon and the American Retreat -- Martin Luther King, Jr. and American Sainthood -- Betty Friedan and the American Woman -- Alan Greenspan and the American Banker -- Bill Clinton and the New America.
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United States--History--20th century--Biography. United States--Civilization--20th century.