Introduction | |
Maestros | |
Isadora Duncan | p. 1 |
Bob Fosse | p. 6 |
Keith Haring | p. 12 |
Jerome Robbins | p. 16 |
Gianni Versace | p. 20 |
Andy Warhol | p. 24 |
Visionaries | |
Susan B. Anthony | p. 28 |
Quentin Crisp | p. 35 |
Che Guevara | p. 40 |
Helen Keller | p. 46 |
Martin Luther King Jr. | p. 51 |
Karl Marx | p. 57 |
Eleanor Roosevelt | p. 61 |
Ryan White | p. 68 |
Malcolm X | p. 72 |
Wisecrackers | |
Lucille Ball | p. 76 |
Jack Benny | p. 81 |
Stan Laurel | p. 87 |
Gilda Radner | p. 94 |
Charles Schulz | p. 97 |
Captains of Industry | |
Andrew Carnegie | p. 102 |
Henry Ford | p. 109 |
David Ogilvy | p. 114 |
John D. Rockefeller Jr. | p. 119 |
Charles Tiffany | p. 124 |
Movie Stars | |
Humphrey Bogart | p. 128 |
Richard Burton | p. 133 |
Bette Davis | p. 141 |
James Dean | p. 147 |
Jack Lemmon | p. 151 |
Walter Matthau | p. 156 |
River Phoenix | p. 161 |
Mae West | p. 165 |
Explorers and High Fliers | |
Challenger Astronauts | p. 170 |
Amelia Earhart | p. 175 |
Thomas Edison | p. 178 |
Albert Einstein | p. 181 |
Carl Jung | p. 188 |
Timothy Leary | p. 195 |
Marshall McLuhan | p. 199 |
Tunesmiths and Songbirds | |
Chet Atkins | p. 202 |
Irving Berlin | p. 210 |
Sammy Davis Jr. | p. 215 |
Duke Ellington | p. 219 |
George Harrison | p. 225 |
Janis Joplin | p. 230 |
Lawrence Welk | p. 236 |
Movie Moguls | |
Stanley Kubrick | p. 241 |
Irving "Swifty" Lazar | p. 247 |
David O. Selznick | p. 253 |
Billy Wilder | p. 256 |
Darryl F. Zanuck | p. 260 |
Wordsmiths | |
Erma Bombeck | p. 264 |
Emily Dickinson | p. 268 |
Robert Frost | p. 272 |
Dashiell Hammett | p. 277 |
Lillian Hellman | p. 281 |
Theodor Seuss Geisel | p. 285 |
Mark Twain | p. 292 |
Virginia Woolf | p. 295 |
Walt Whitman | p. 300 |
Camelot | |
John F. Kennedy | p. 306 |
John F. Kennedy Jr. | p. 309 |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | p. 315 |
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