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Martin Walker. The story of America in the 20th cent. as told through the lives of 26 of its most historically crucial people. Portrays pres., artists, industrialists, thinkers, entertainers, soldiers, spies, & criminals, etc. Each person’s life serves as a framework for a discussion of the nation as a whole. Covers: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, William Boeing, Walter Reuther, George C. Marshall, Duke Ellington, Frank Lloyd Wright, Katharine Hepburn, John Steinbeck, Babe Ruth, William F. Buckley, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Betty Friedan, Billy Graham, Emma Goldman, Black Jack Pershing, Lucky Luciano, Albert Einstein, Richard Bissell, Alan Greenspan, & Winston Churchill.
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