Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366).
George F. Kennan: architect of containment -- Henry A. Wallace: champion of the common man and cooperation -- I.F. Stone: dissenter in an age of conformity -- J. Edgar Hoover: fighter against the red menace -- Marilyn Monroe: symbol of the new sexuality -- Elvis Presley: rock and roll rebel -- Jackie Robinson: racial torchbearer in the national pastime -- Allen Ginsberg: avatar of the beats -- Curtis LeMay: Apostle of Armageddon -- C. Wright Mills: prophet of the new left -- Fannie Lou Hunter: Mississippi freedom fighter -- César Chávez: guardian of the United Farm Workers Union -- Tom Hayden: new left activist -- Barry Goldwater: hero of the new right -- Robert Kennedy: herald of the new politics -- George C. Wallace: practitioner of the politics of rage -- Jimi Hendrix: troubadour of psychedelia -- Bernadine Dohrn: reformer, radical revolutionary -- Gloria Steinem: feminist icon -- Phyllis Schafly: counterrevolutionary on the right -- Jerry Falwell: standard-bearer of the Christian right -- Bill Gates: prophet of techno times -- Tiger Woods: golf's great black hope -- Clarence Thomas: black conservative in judicial robes -- Paul Wolfowitz: Democratic imperialist -- Noam Chomsky: radical gadfly