The illustrations throughout the text are also by Stephen Longstreet, "an artist of unusual talents who has achieved success as both a writer and a painter"--Dust jacket back flap.
Among the Americans included in this history are Benjamin Franklin, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Elihu Washburne, Henry James, Mary Cassatt, Edith Wharton, John Singer Sargent, Gertrude Stein, H.L. Mencken, Isadora Duncan, John Dos Passos, Cole Porter, Henry Miller, and Richard Wright.