100 People Who Changed 20th Century America 2 Volumes

Author : Mary Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610690869
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 volumes] written by Mary Cross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Cross
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 People who Changed 20th-century America written by Mary Cross and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : CBS News
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684870932
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of the Century written by CBS News and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, as selected by the editors of Time magazine and featured in a series of documentaries produced by CBS.

Author : Peter Dreier
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586949
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century written by Peter Dreier and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tom Pendergast
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture written by Tom Pendergast and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays that provide information on various elements of popular culture in the United States during the twentieth century, covering the major areas of film, music, print culture, social life, sports, television and radio, and art and performance. Arranged alphabetically from A-to-D.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book 100 People who Changed America written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim R. McClellan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
ISBN 13 : 9780072283839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Interpretations of America's Past written by Jim R. McClellan and published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an examination of incidents from the Civil War through the 20th Century, important to the development of the American Nation. This book features primary and secondary source materials on approximately 30 selected moments in American history. It is designed for use in introductory courses in American history.

Author : Mary K. Mannix
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 083891294X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography written by Mary K. Mannix and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2015 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. 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 : Carl Jensen
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 160980306X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories that Changed America written by Carl Jensen and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Glenn C. Altschuler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198031912
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Shook Up written by Glenn C. Altschuler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks with originating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. In addition, rock celebrated romance and sex, rattled the reticent by pushing sexuality into the public arena, and mocked deferred gratification and the obsession with work of men in gray flannel suits. And it delighted in the separate world of the teenager and deepened the divide between the generations, helping teenagers differentiate themselves from others. Altschuler includes vivid biographical sketches of the great rock 'n rollers, including Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly--plus their white-bread doppelgangers such as Pat Boone. Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.