Lifetimes: The Great War to the Stock Market Crash--American History Through Biography and Primary Documents

by Neil W. Hamilton

Overview

The years between the first world war and the great stock market crash marked the arrival of the United States of America as a world military, business, scientific, and cultural leader. Americans from all stripes and in all fields achieved great notoriety. Babe Ruth, Margaret Sanger, Duke Ellington, Alfred Stieglitz, Aimee Semple McPherson, Woodrow Wilson, Clarence Darrow, Langston Hughes, and Henry Ford are just a few of the luminaries who shined on the world's stage. Combining substantial biographical accounts of 60 Americans who influenced or represented their times with portraits and other photographs and up to five often hard-to-find primary documents written by or relating to the subject, Lifetimes offers readers a comprehensive account of the person's life and work and first-hand accounts of what they thought and what other people thought about them. This all-in-one biographical resource is perfect for students and anyone interested in this pivotal era in American history.

Among the Americans included in the volume who made a profound impact on society are music greats Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, and Bessie Smith; sports stars Jack Dempsey, Knute Rockne, and Helen Wills; writer Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway; scientists or inventors Edwin Armstrong and George and Gladys Dick; leaders for women's rights Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul; social and political leaders Emma Goldman, Marcus Garvey, and Eugene Debs; movie stars Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, and Anna May Wong, and notorious figures like Al Capone or Sacco and Vanzetti. Each entry contains a biography of 750-1500 words, the portrait, other photographs, primary documents featuring items such as Al Smith's response to charges that he was not fit to be president because he was Catholic, or the NAACP's attack on the racial stereotypes portrayed in D.W. Griffith's epic, Birth of a Nation, and sources for further reading. The volume ends with an analytical index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313317996
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/2002
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

NEIL A. HAMILTON is Professor of History at Spring Hill College.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Biographies
Armstrong, Edwin
Armstrong, Louis
Baker, Josephine
Baldwin, Roger Nash
Barton, Bruce
Bow, Clara
Brandeis, Louis
Bryan, William Jennings
Cannon, Annie Jump
Capone, Al
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Chaplin, Charlie
Coolidge, Calvin
Darrow, Clarence
Debs, Eugene V.
Dempsey, Jack
Dick, George and Gladys
Du Bois, W.E. B.
Einstein, Albert
Ellington, Duke
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Ford, Henry
Garvey Marcus
Gershwin, George
Goldman, Emma
Gompers, Samuel
Griffith, D. W.
Harding, Warren G.
Haywood, William ("Big Bill")
Hearst, William Randolph
Hemingway, Ernest
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Hughes, Langston
Hurston, Zora Neale
Jackson, Shoeless Joe
Kennedy, Joseph P.
La Follette, Robert Marion
Lasker, Albert
Lindbergh, Charles
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Mayer, Louis B.
McPherson, Aimee Semple
Mencken, H. L.
Palmer, A. Mitchell
Parker, Dorothy
Paul, Alice
Pershing, John J.
Rankin, Jeannette
Rockne, Knute
Rogers, Will
Ruth, Babe
Sacco, Nicola, and Vanzetti, Bartolomeo
Sanger, Margaret
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Bessie
Stein, Gertrude
Stieglitz, Alfred
Wills, Helen
Wilson, Woodrow
Wong, Anna May
The Appendices, Bibliography, and Index
Appendix One: Document List
Appendix Two: Historical Timeline
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Sixty biographical profiles are paired with primary documents to offer a glimpse of American history in the 1920s. Among those profiled are Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Al Capone, Charlie Chaplain, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Ford, Marcus Garvey, Emma Goldman, Samuel Gompers, D.W. Griffith, Big Bill Haywood, William Randolph Hearst, Langston Hughes, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Charles Lindbergh, Mitchell Palmer, Dorothy Parker, Will Rodgers, Babe Ruth, Margaret Sanger, and Woodrow Wilson. A chronology and introductory essay help to situate the biographies in their historical contexts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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