Ed Asner, Bob Barker, Wallace Berry, Joan Crawford, Robert Cummings, Phyllis Diller, Redd Foxx, John Goodman, Betty Grable, Jean Harlow, John Huston, Kevin Kline, Agnes Moorehead, Steve McQueen, Geraldine Page, Brad Pitt, William Powell, Vincent Price, Kathleen Turner, Jane Wyman, Dennis Weaver
p. 45
Chapter 2
Fine Arts
Thomas Hart Benton
p. 48
Chuck Berry
p. 51
Carl and Robert Boiler
p. 54
Grace Bumbry
p. 61
Walter Cronkite
p. 61
Scott Joplin
p. 65
Bill Mauldin
p. 68
Charlie "Bird" Parker
p. 71
Joseph Pulitzer
p. 74
Burt Bacharach, Harry Caray, Sheryl Crow, Jane Froman, Dave Garroway, Ferlin Husky, Johnny Mullins, Stone Phillips, Virgil Thomson, Porter Wagoner
p. 77
Chapter 3
Education and Literature
Maya Angelou
p. 80
Susan Blow
p. 84
Dale Carnegie
p. 87
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
p. 91
T. S. Eliot
p. 96
Langston Hughes
p. 100
Reinhold N'iebuhr
p. 103
Marlin Perkins
p. 107
Laura Ingalls Wilder
p. 110
Tennessee Williams
p. 114
Walter Williams
p. 118
Eugene Field, Mary Paxton Keeley, William Least Heat-Moon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Barclay Moon Newman Jr., Sara Teasdale
p. 122
Chapter 4
Business
Henry and Richard Bloch
p. 124
Adolphus Busch
p. 127
James Buchanan Eads
p. 132
Joyce Hall
p. 136
Ewing Kauffman
p. 140
Johnny Morris
p. 144
James Cash Penney
p. 148
Sam Walton
p. 152
John Danforth, Howard Hughes, James Smith McDonnell, Danny Meyer, Paul Mueller, Jack C. Taylor
p. 156
Chapter 5
Science and Technology
George Washington Carver
p. 158
Thomas Anthony Dooley
p. 163
Charles Stark Draper
p. 166
James Fergason
p. 169
Leonard Goodall
p. 172
Edwin Hubble
p. 176
Jack Kilby
p. 181
William Lear
p. 185
Thomas Akers, Edwin W. Handler, Joe Jones, Henry Kang, Roscoe Koontz, Nicholas David Caola Kulhnan, Jerry Plunkett, Steven W. Post, Terry Gene Rayburn, Rajesh Talwar, Jason R. Troxel, Joel D. Wiesner, Roy Wilkens
p. 189
Chapter 6
Politics and Military
Omar Bradley
p. 192
William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
p. 197
Enoch H. Crowder
p. 201
Ulysses S. Grant
p. 205
Carrie Nation
p. 210
Thomas J. Pendergast
p. 215
John J. Pershing
p. 219
Phyllis Schlafly
p. 224
Dred Scott
p. 228
Harry S Truman
p. 232
William T. Anderson, John Ashcroft, Enoch Crowder, John C. Fremont, William J. Fulbright, Dick Gregory, Tim Koine, Rush Limbaugh, Sterling Price, Ike Skelton, Maxwell Taylor, Jim Webb, Roy Wilkins, George Allison Whiteman
p. 242
Chapter 7
Sports
Henry Armstrong
p. 244
Yogi Berra
p. 248
Bob Costas
p. 254
Joe Garagiola
p. 257
Stan Musial
p. 261
Satchel Paige
p. 265
Casey Stengel
p. 271
Helen Stephens
p. 277
Bill Bradley, Dan Faurot, Elston Howard, Cal Hubbard, Hal Irwin, Bob Orton, Mike Shannon, Payne Stewart, Tom Watson, Earl Weaver, Kellon Winslow
p. 280
Chapter 8
Others
Daniel Boone
p. 282
Kit Carson
p. 286
Jesse and Frank James
p. 290
Calamity Jane
p. 296
Charles Lindbergh
p. 299
William Quantrill
p. 304
Belle Starr
p. 309
Sacred Sun
p. 313
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Tom Horn, James Earl Ray