Icons of American popular culture : from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez /
Cottrell, Robert C.,1950-
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Democratic showmen: James Gordon Bennett and P. T. Barnum -- Exponents of the culture of consumption: Marshall Field and Horatio Alger, Jr. -- Stars of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley: Lillian Russell and Irving Berlin -- The cinematic artist and the literary lion: D. W. Griffith and Ernest Hemingway -- The "new woman" and the "new Negro": Clara Bow and Bessie Smith -- Voices of radical culture: Margaret Bourke-White and Woody Guthrie -- American heroes: Hank Greenberg and Edward R. Murrow -- American rebels: Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley -- American icons in a time of unrest: John F. Kennedy and Muhammad Ali -- American dreamers: Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez.
Popular culture
Celebrities
Entertainers
National characteristics, American.