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21 Cards in this Set
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Moby Dick was a flop at the time, but _________ is remembered as the American Shakespeare. |
Herman Melville #100 |
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He broke the New Deal majority, and then broke his presidency on a scandal that still haunts America. |
Richard Nixon #99 |
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As an educator and a champion of self-help, he tried to lead black America up from slavery. |
Booker T. Washington #98 |
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America’s first great songwriter, he brought us “O! Susanna” and “My Old Kentucky Home.” |
Stephen Foster #97 |
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He made the cars we drive safer; thirty years later, he made George W. Bush the president. |
Ralph Nader #96 |
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A producer for forty years, he was the first great Hollywood mogul. |
Samuel Goldwyn #95 |
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The founder of Kodak democratized photography with his handy rolls of film. |
George Eastman #94 |
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He was the most successful rebel slave; his specter would stalk the white South for a century. |
Nat Turner #93 |
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As the creator of Tom Joad, he chronicled Depression-era misery. |
John Steinbeck #92 |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s clergyman father earned fame as an abolitionist and an evangelist. |
Lyman Beecher #91 |
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Forget the fire and brimstone: his subtle eloquence made him the country’s most influential theologian. |
Jonathan Edwards #90 |
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The last man who could swing an election with a newspaper column. |
Walter Lippmann #89 |
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A giant of physics, he helped develop quantum theory and was instrumental in building the atomic bomb. |
Enrico Fermi #88 |
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With a single book—and a singular approach—he changed American parenting. |
Benjamin Spock #87 |
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She got off her sickbed and founded Christian Science, which promised spiritual healing to all. |
Mary Baker Eddy #86 |
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His spare style defined American modernism, and his life made machismo a cliché. |
Ernest Hemingway #85 |
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As a lawyer and a Supreme Court justice, he was the legal architect of the civil-rights revolution. |
Thurgood Marshall #84 |
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The novels are unreadable, but he was the first great mythologizer of the frontier. |
James Fenimore Cooper #83 |
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He asked Americans what they thought, and the politicians listened. |
George Gallup #82 |
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With Coming of Age in Samoa, she made anthropology relevant—and controversial. |
Margaret Mead #81 |
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The press baron who perfected yellow journalism and helped start the Spanish-American War. |
William Randolph Hearst #80 |
