Giants in their time
Subtitle: representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War
By: Norman K. Risjord.
Series: Representative Americans
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.; Biography -- 20th century.; United States -- Biography.; United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "From the 1920s to the end of World War II, the American experience was one of unbounded optimism, monumental achievements, and tragic loss. In Giants in Their Time, the latest volume in the Representative Americans series, noted historian Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during this exciting, and trying period."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington : the Jazz Age; title: Aime Semple McPherson : Jazz Age religion; title: Samuel Insull and the great crash; title: Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism; title: Harry Hopkins : quintessential New Dealer; title: John L. Lewis : labor hero and public villain; title: Mickey Mouse : laughter in hard times; title: Monica Sone, Richard Nishimoto, and Daniel K. Inoye : the Nisei Japanese experience; title: General George Marshall : duty bound; title: Rosie the riveter : four lives; title: J. Robert Oppenheimer : father of the atomic bomb.