Lifetimes

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. 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.