Frady, the acclaimed biographer of George Wallace and Billy Graham, provides an unblinking look at the man behind the myth. Oxford University Press, 1999. I broke out, as the starting point. These quotes are from writers and others alive in or after that year and come from political movements, songs, poetry, advertisements, television, sound bites, and even online sources. Earlier events that have continued to echo down the century, such as the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, are included.
Coverage is international, although emphasis leans toward British sources.
Authors covered range from W. C. Fields and Paul McCartney to Bella Abzug and J. Robert Oppenheimer, with many others represented. Each quotation is accompanied by contextual information, if needed, and always a note as to the source. Knowles and her project team have produced an authoritative overview of social, political, cultural, and scientific concerns of the century.