100 entertainers who changed America : an encyclopedia of pop culture luminaries / Robert C. Sickels, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sickels, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrities--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.

Celebrities.

Entertainers--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.

Entertainers.

United States--Biography--Dictionaries.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (763 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Other Title:

One hundred entertainers who changed America

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Comprising approximately 100 entries from more than 50 contributors from a variety of fields, this book covers a wide historical swath of entertainment figures chosen primarily for their lasting influence on American popular culture, not their popularity.

Contents:

Cover; VOLUME 1; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Encyclopedia Entries; Ali, Muhammad; Allen, Woody; Apatow, Judd; Astaire, Fred, and Gene Kelly; Ball, Lucille, and Desi Arnaz; Barnum, P. T.; Barr, Roseanne; Berry, Chuck; Blanc, Mel; Bogart, Humphrey; Brando, Marlon; Brooks, Garth; Brown, James; Carson, Johnny; Chaplin, Charlie; Child, Julia; Chuck D; Clemente, Roberto; Cody, Buffalo Bill; Cole, Nat King; Cosby, Bill; Cronkite, Walter; DeGeneres, Ellen; DeMille, Cecil B.; Disney, Walt; Dylan, Bob; Earhart, Amelia; Eisner, Michael; Fey, Tina; Fuller, Simon; Ginsberg, Allen

Graham, MarthaGrateful Dead, The; Griffith, D. W.; Handy, W. C.; Hefner, Hugh; Henson, Jim; Hitchcock, Alfred; Holiday, Billie; Hughes, John; Jackson, Michael; Jay-Z; Jones, Chuck; Jordan, Michael; Kazan, Elia; King, Billie Jean; Kirby, Jack; Lear, Norman; Lee, Ang; Lee, Bruce; Lee, Stan; Lopez, Jennifer; Lucas, George; VOLUME 2; Madonna; McMahon, Vince; Michaels, Lorne; Miyamoto, Shigeru; Monroe, Marilyn; Moore, Mary Tyler; Murrow, Edward R.; Nixon, Agnes; Parker, Trey, and Matt Stone; Presley, Elvis; Pryor, Richard; Robinson, Jackie; Rogers, Will; Run-DMC; Seinfeld, Jerry; Selena

Serling, RodSiegel, Jerry, and Joe Shuster; Sinatra, Frank; Smith, Bessie; Smothers Brothers, The: Tom Smothers and Dick Smothers; Spielberg, Steven; Springsteen, Bruce; Stern, Howard; Stewart, Jon; Stewart, Martha; Sullivan, Ed; Tarantino, Quentin; Thalberg, Irving; Twain, Mark; Velvet Underground, The; Vonnegut, Kurt; Warhol, Andy; Warner Brothers, The; Wasserman, Lew; Wayne, John; Webber, Andrew Lloyd; Weinstein, Harvey; West, Mae; Whitman, Walt; Wilder, Billy; Williams, Hank; Williams, John; Williams, Tennessee; Winchell, Walter, Louella Parsons, and Hedda Hopper; Winfrey, Oprah

Woods, TigerAbout the Editor and Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400605154

9798216040569

9781785394928

1785394924

9781598848304

1598848305

9781598848311

1598848313

OCLC:

1450215921