About the Author
Martin Walker served as bureau chief for Britain's The Guardian in Washington, D.C., and other postings before retiring as the paper's assistant editor. A regular commentator on CNN, Inside Washington, and NPR, he is also a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Times. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and The New Republic, and was awarded Britain's Reporter of the Year prize. He is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute in New York and has lectured at many American universities. Walker is the author of six books, including The President We Deserve and The Cold War: A History. He is married, has two daughters, and lives in Europe.
Table of Contents
Teddy Roosevelt and the American ambition -- Emma Goldman and the American dissident -- "Black Jack" Pershing and the American army -- Henry Ford and the American system -- Woodrow Wilson and the American idealism -- Babe Ruth and American sports -- William Boeing and the American airplane -- Duke Ellington and the American sound -- Winston Churchill and the American diaspora -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the American space -- Luck Luciano and the American criminal -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American solution -- Katharine Hepburn and the American star -- Walter Reuther and the American worker -- John Steinbeck and the American voice --Albert Einstein and the American refuge -- George Marshall and American power -- William F. Buckley, Jr. and American conservatism -- Richard Bissell and the American spy -- Billy Graham and American religion -- Walt Disney and American entertainment -- Richard Nixon and the American retreat -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and American sainthood -- Betty Friedan and the American woman -- Alan Greenspan and the American banker -- Bill Clinton and the new America.