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(1929 – 1994) Multi-faceted American icon. Daughter of East Coast Catholic aristocracy “Jackie” brought style and elegance to her marriage with John Kennedy, helping his political career and transforming the taste of the White House—and America—as First Lady.
After JFK’s assassination in 1963, her sorrow and grace as the martyred widow and mother of the next generation of Kennedys endeared her even more to an American public who would be shocked by her marriage (1968–75) to Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis. In her later years, she maintained a private life in New York City while working as an editor for Doubleday; nonetheless, in all phases of her life she was a magnet for publicity whose photographs are emblems of the American century.
Industry:Culture
(born 1930) Actor and director who has come to embody the lank, brooding, taciturn loner in the old West and contemporary police drama. Eastwood’s career began with the longrunning television western Rawhide (CBS, 1959–65), but took off after his 1960s trilogy of “Spaghetti westerns” with Sergio Leone (e.g. A Fistful of Dollars, 1964). In the 1970s, he alternated this cowboy persona with that of an edgy violent policeman in Dirty Harry (1971), whose tag line “Make my Day” was even taken up by President Reagan.
Eastwood has subsequently established himself as a more serious actor and director, gaining dual Oscar Awards for his reinterpretation of the western in Unforgiven (1992).
Off-screen, he has served as mayor of Carmel, California and has been the subject of a famous “palimony” suit.
Industry:Culture
(born 1930) Barth was one of a group of influential American novelists and writers who became known in the 1960s for their turn to experimental fiction: his 1967 essay “The Literature of Exhaustion,” is often cited as a manifesto of sorts for American literary postmodernism. In novels such as The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Chimera (1972) and The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991), Barth sought to infuse traditional narratives and prose styles with late modern or postmodern themes and philosophical concerns. Barth spent most of his adult life in the academy and is now a Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at the Johns Hopkins University Barth’s love of storytelling—the figure of Sheherazade is a favorite motif—arguably has made his work more accessible than many other postmodern American writers.
Industry:Culture
(born 1930) First woman to serve as associate justice of the US Supreme Court. She was nominated by President Reagan and sworn in as a justice on the nation’s highest court in 1981. Her influence on the court was most deeply felt in the area of 1st Amendment jurisprudence (she developed the court’s controlling standard for interpreting the establishment clause). She became one of the court’s leaders in declaring the unconstitutionality of government discrimination based on race, regardless of its goal. In 1991 she largely ended the court’s abortion debate by ruling: “the essential holding of Roe v. Wade still stands.”
Industry:Culture
(born 1930) One of the great popularizers of environmental concerns during the 1960s and 1970s.
His book, The Population Bomb (1968), co-authored by his wife, Anne, brought Malthusian concerns over population growth and the inevitability of resource scarcity into the political realm. This book also became the most widely read and discussed environmental book of the era, surpassing even Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) in sales. Although many of Ehrlich’s dire predictions have not come true, they were responsible for bringing to light the notion that there may be genuine ecological limits to human growth.
Industry:Culture
(born 1930) Painter, quilt-maker and storyteller. Ringgold has been particular notable in transforming memories of and observations on the African American family, social life and political economic context into vivid painted and stitched quilts intertwining multiple, complex stories. These take black folk traditions into museums and, at the same time, open them to new audiences as in her classic children’s story Tar Beach (1991) (part of her “Woman on the Bridge” series in New York’s Guggenheim collection).
Raised in Harlem, Ringgold has become a global teacher and artist.
Industry:Culture
(born 1930) Successful Texas businessperson, political party organizer and author, Perot came into the national spotlight in 1992 when he ran for president as a third-party candidate. Using his own money to launch his campaign, Perot focused on the economy by airing halfhour infomercials during the campaign. Perot captured 19 percent of the 1992 vote, the highest percentage captured by a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Concerned with grassroots political involvement, Perot helped establish the Reform Party and became its presidential nominee in 1996, winning 9 percent of the popular vote.
Industry:Culture
(1930 – 1978) Gay rights advocate and representative of San Francisco, CA’s Fifth District on the Board of Supervisors. After being discharged from the military, Milk eventually migrated to San Francisco where he set up a business in the Castro district and organized the Castro Valley Association. After multiple campaigns, he became the city’s first openly gay individual to gain high public office in 1977. Milk helped pass a city ordinance forbidding discrimination against gays and lesbians, but was assassinated at City Hall in November 1978 by a former supervisor named Daniel White, who shot Milk five times after killing then-Mayor George Moscone. After his death, nonetheless, Milk continued to be a symbol of both gay pride and the toll of homophobia in political actions in San Francisco and the nation. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) provides a compelling visual record of the man, his context and impact.
Industry:Culture
(born 1931) Distinguished stage and film actor, Jones made his Broadway debut in The Blacks in 1957 and his film debut in Dr Strangelove in 1964. Born in Mississippi and raised in Michigan, Jones majored in drama at the University of Michigan. In 1969 he became nationally known for his portrayal of heavyweight boxer Joe Jackson in The Great White Hope. Known for his deep voice, Jones has narrated many productions and is the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars trilogy. Jones’ awards for his contributions include a Grammy, a Golden Globe, two Emmys and two Tony Awards.
Industry:Culture
(born 1931) Novelist born and residing in New York City, known for mixing historical figures and fiction in novels like The Book of Daniel (1960), based on the Rosenberg case, Ragtime (1975), an adaptation of an eighteenth-century German historical narrative to the lives of New Yorkers at the beginning of the twentieth century (made into a Broadway musical in 1998), Billy Bathgate (1989), about Dutch Schultz’s mob-dominated Bronx in the 1920s, and Loon Lake (1980), portraying American life during the Depression years of the 1930s. Doctorow has also been vocal politically as an editor-in-chief for Dial Press (where he worked with such writers as Norman Mailer and James Baldwin) and as a frequent contributor to left-leaning magazines like The Nation.
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