Lifetimes : the Great War to the stock market crash : American history through biography and primary documents / edited by Neil A. Hamilton ; writers, Mark LaFlaur, James M. Manheim, Reneé Miller.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-314) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Armstrong, Edwin 11 -- Armstrong, Louis 15 -- Baker, Josephine 18 -- Baldwin, Roger Nash 22 -- Barton, Bruce 27 -- Bow, Clara 31 -- Brandeis, Louis 35 -- Bryan, William Jennings 40 -- Cannon, Annie Jump 45 -- Capone, Al 49 -- Catt, Carrie Chapman 53 -- Chaplin, Charlie 59 -- Coolidge, Calvin 63 -- Darrow, Clarence 69 -- Debs, Eugene V. 73 -- Dempsey, Jack 78 -- Dick, George and Gladys 83 -- Du Bois, W. E. B. 87 -- Einstein, Albert 92 -- Ellington, Duke 97 -- Fitzgerald, F. Scott 101 -- Ford, Henry 106 -- Garvey, Marcus 112 -- Gershwin, George 117 -- Goldman, Emma 121 -- Gompers, Samuel 127 -- Griffith, D. W 132 -- Harding, Warren G. 138 -- Haywood, William ("Big Bill") 142 -- Hearst, William Randolph 146 -- Hemingway, Ernest 150 -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 155 -- Hughes, Langston 160 -- Hurston, Zora Neale 165 -- Jackson, Shoeless Joe 170 -- Kennedy, Joseph P. 174 -- La Follette, Robert Marion 178 -- Lasker, Albert 183 -- Lindbergh, Charles 187 -- Lodge, Henry Cabot 191 -- Mayer, Louis B. 196 -- McPherson, Aimee Semple 201 -- Mencken, H. L. 206 -- Palmer, A. Mitchell 213 -- Parker, Dorothy 218 -- Paul, Alice 222 -- Pershing, John J. 226 -- Rankin, Jeannette 231 -- Rockne, Knute 236 -- Rogers, Will 242 -- Ruth, Babe 246 -- Sacco, Nicola, and Vanzetti, Bartolomeo 250 -- Sanger, Margaret 255 -- Smith, Alfred E. 261 -- Smith, Bessie 266 -- Stein, Gertrude 269 -- Stieglitz, Alfred 275 -- Wills, Helen 279 -- Wilson, Woodrow 284 -- Wong, Anna May 290.

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.