The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 20th-Century Timeline
• The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century
• Tom Johnson (1854–1911)
• Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925)
• Eugene Debs (1855–1926)
• Louis Brandeis (1856–1941)
• Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
• Florence Kelley (1859–1932)
• John Dewey (1859–1952)
• Victor Berger (1860–1929)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
• Jane Addams (1860–1935)
• Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936)
• Hiram Johnson (1866–1945)
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
• William "Big Bill" Haywood (1869–1928)
• Alice Hamilton (1869–1970)
• Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
• Lewis Hine (1874–1940)
• Robert F. Wagner Sr. (1877–1953)
• Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
• Margaret Sanger (1879–1966)
• John L. Lewis (1880–1969)
• Helen Keller (1880–1968)
• Frances Perkins (1880–1965)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
• Rose Schneiderman (1882–1972)
• Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947)
• Roger Baldwin (1884–1981)
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
• Norman Thomas (1884–1968)
• A. J. Muste (1885–1967)
• Alice Stokes Paul (1885–1977)
• Sidney Hillman (1887–1946)
• Henry Wallace (1888–1965)
• A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979)
• Earl Warren (1891–1974)
• Floyd Olson (1891–1936)
• Dorothy Day (1897–1980)
• Paul Robeson (1898–1976)
• William O. Douglas (1898–1980)
• Harry Bridges (1901–1990)
• Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
• Vito Marcantonio (1902–1954)
• Virginia F. Durr (1903–1999)
• Ella Baker (1903–1986)
• Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904–1991)
• Myles Horton (1905–1990)
• Carey McWilliams (1905–1980)
• William J. Brennan Jr. (1906–1997)
• Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972)
• Rachel Carson (1907–1964)
• Walter Reuther (1907–1970)
• I. F. Stone (1907–1989)
• Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973)
• John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006)
• Saul Alinsky (1909–1972)
• Bayard Rustin (1912–1987)
• Harry Hay (1912–2002)
• Studs Terkel (1912–2008)
• David Brower (1912–2000)
• Woody Guthrie (1912–1967)
• Arthur Miller (1915–2005)
• Jane Jacobs (1916–2006)
• C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
• Barry Commoner (1917–)
• Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
• Jackie Robinson (1919–1972)
• Pete Seeger (1919–)
• Jerry Wurf (1919–1981)
• Bella Abzug (1920–1998)
• Betty Friedan (1921–2006)
• Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
• Rev. William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006)
• Malcolm X (1925–1965)
• Cesar Chavez (1927–1993)
• Michael Harrington (1928–1989)
• Rev. James Lawson (1928–)
• Noam Chomsky (1928–)
• Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
• Allard Lowenstein (1929–1980)
• Harvey Milk (1930–1978)
• Ted Kennedy (1932–2009)
• Ralph Nader (1934–)
• Gloria Steinem (1934–)
• Bill Moyers (1934–)
• Bob Moses (1935–)
• Tom Hayden (1939–)
• John Lewis (1940–)
• Joan Baez (1941–)
• Bob Dylan (1941–)
• Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–)
• Jesse Jackson (1941–)
• Muhammad Ali (1942–)
• Billie Jean King (1943–)
• Paul Wellstone (1944–2002)
• Bruce Springsteen (1949–)
• Michael Moore (1954–)
• Tony Kushner (1956–)
• The 21st Century So Far
• Bibliography
• Permissions
• About the Author