Acknowledgments

American Stock/Archive Photos: Jimmy Dorsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lana Turner

AP/Wide World Photos: Eddie Bauer, L.L.Bean, John Berryman, Paul Bowles, James Cain, Ernesto Cardenal, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joan Ganz Cooney, George Cukor, Imogen Cunningham, James Dickey, J.P. Donleavy, Michael Eisner, Jose Feliciano, Bill Ford, Lou Gerstner, Red Grange, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Jim Henson, Tommy Hilfiger, Whitney Houston, Ron Howard, Faisal Husseini, Mike Ilitch, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Joseph Kennedy, William Kennedy, Norman Lear, Viola Liuzzo, Malcolm Lowry, George Lucas, Lucky Luciano, Shannon Lucid, Sean MacBride, Stanley Marcus, Wynton Marsalis, Marlee Matlin, Scott McNealy, James Michener, Glenn Miller, Robert Mondavi, Chuichi Nagumo, Patricia Neal, Paavo Nurmi, Gordon Parks, T. Boone Pickens, Ferdinand Porsche, Jr., Hal Prince, Richard Pryor, Ma Rainey, Pete Rozelle, Gerhard Schroeder, Wallis Simpson, Thomas Sowell, Wallace Stegner, George Steinbrenner, Casey Stengel, Helen Stephens, Martha Stewart, David Trimble, Matt Urban, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Jack Warner, Thomas John Watson, Jr., Steve Wozniak, Chien-Shiung Wu, Darryl F. Zanuck

APA/Archive Photos: Connie Mack

Archive Photos: Moshood Abiola, Harold Arlen, Max Beerbohm, Richard Branson, Lenny Bruce, Lepke Buchalter, Roy Campanella, Steve Case, Florence Chadwick, Chai Ling, Joan Crawford, E.L. Doctorow, Gertrude Ederle, Eileen Ford, Lou Gehrig, George Gipp, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, Ben Hogan, Grace Kelly, Jack Kevorkian, Ernie Kovacs, Oscar Levant, William Levitt, Louis B. Mayer, Michael Milken, Billy Mills, Stan Musial, Richard Reynolds, Maurice Sendak, Nawaz Sharif, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, W. Eugene Smith, Preston Sturges, Arthur Tedder, Gloria Vanderbilt, Vercingetorix, Gianni Versace, Helmut Werner, Helen Wills, Aldolph Zukor

Archive Photos/Reuters: Helen Thomas, Alfred Eisenstaedt

Jerry Baur: Ngaio Marsh, Walker Percy, Jean Rhys

Les Brown Enterprises, Inc.: Les Brown

Country Music Foundation, Inc.: Jimmie Rodgers

Steve Dipaola 1998/Nike, Inc.: Phil Knight

Fisk University Library: Elijah McCoy

General Electric: Jack Welch

The Granger Collection, New York: Jan Matzeliger

Henry Grossman: Isaac Stern

HarperCollins Publishers Inc.: Shel Silverstein

Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis: Derek Jacobi, Paul Poiret, Mary Quant

International Portrait Gallery: Richard Hughes

The Kobal Collection: Lon Chaney, Douglas Fairbanks, Jean-Luc Godard, Mae West

Library of Congress: Clarence Birdseye, Herman Hollerith, Belva Lockwood, Alice Paul, Mary Pickford

Hugh Lofting, Literary Estate of: Hugh Lofting

Macmillan Children's Books Group: Marguerite Henry

Netscape Communications: Marc Andreessen

Penske Motorsports, Inc.: Roger Penske

Queens Library, Long Island Division: Lewis Latimer

Ken Settle: Stevie Wonder

Transcendental Graphics: Ted Williams

UPI/Corbis-Bettmann: Robert Ballard, Rosa Bonheur, Adolphus Busch, Maureen Connolly, Alice Evans, Alfred Fuller, Barron Hilton, Maggie Kuhn, Suzanne Lenglen, Candy Lightner, Bill Pickett, Ethel Andrus, Vincent Bendix, William Bernbach, Harold Courlander, Charles Dow, H.J. Heinz, Konosuke Matsushita, Conde Nast, Maurice Richard, Walter Short, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Carl Spaatz, Ed Sullivan, Stella Walsh, Pat Weaver, Edward Weston, Ryan White

USHMM Photo Archives: Albert Speer

Carl Van Vechten, the Estate of: Mahalia Jackson