Icons of American Popular Culture: From P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez

Contents

• Introduction;
• 1. Democratic Showmen: James Gordon Bennett and P. T. Barnum;
• 2. Exponents of the Culture of Consumption: Marshall Field and Horatio Alger;
• 3. Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley: Lillian Russell and Irving Berlin;
• 4. The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion: D. W. Griffith and Ernest Hemingway;
• 5. The New Woman and the New Negro: Clara Bow and Bessie Smith;
• 6. Voices of Radical Culture: Margaret Bourke-White and Woody Guthrie;
• 7. American Heroes: Hank Greenberg and Edward R. Murrow;
• 8. American Rebels: Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley;
• 9. American Icons during a Time of Unrest: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Muhammad Ali;
• 10. American Dreamers: Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez.