Inventors & Such
First powered flight.
Wright Brothers
Father of Communism
Wrote expose on Standard Oil.
Ida Tarbell
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most notorious gangster of the Roaring 20s and early 30s.
Al Capone
Wireless telegraph
Marconi
Classless society; the perfection of socialism.
Communism
Dialectical thinking
Hegel
Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Baseball Evangelist
Billy Sunday
Automobile for the average American.
Henry Ford
No government; no rules
Anarchism
Luxury liner sunk in World War I.
Lusitania
Sound and Fury; Absalom, Absalom
William Faulkner
Long time head of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Made fortune in iron, steel, and railroads.
Andrew Carnegie
Religion of reason
Deism
"God is dead".
Nietzsche
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Teapot Dome Scandal marred his administration.
William G. Harding
1st trans-Atlantic flight
Lindbergh
All things must be questioned.
Skepticism
"Share Our Wealth" program
Huey Long
For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The 3 R's of the New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform