George F. Kennan: architect of containment
Henry A. Wallace: champion of the common man and cooperation
I.F. Stone: dissenter in an age of conformity
J. Edgar Hoover: fighter against the red menace
Marilyn Monroe: symbol of the new sexuality
Elvis Presley: rock and roll rebel
Jackie Robinson: racial torchbearer in the national pastime
Allen Ginsberg: avatar of the beats
Curtis LeMay: Apostle of Armageddon
C. Wright Mills: prophet of the new left
Fannie Lou Hunter: Mississippi freedom fighter
César Chávez: guardian of the United Farm Workers Union
Tom Hayden: new left activist
Barry Goldwater: hero of the new right
Robert Kennedy: herald of the new politics
George C. Wallace: practitioner of the politics of rage
Jimi Hendrix: troubadour of psychedelia
Bernadine Dohrn: reformer, radical revolutionary
Gloria Steinem: feminist icon
Phyllis Schafly: counterrevolutionary on the right
Jerry Falwell: standard-bearer of the Christian right
Bill Gates: prophet of techno times
Tiger Woods: golf's great black hope
Clarence Thomas: black conservative in judicial robes
Paul Wolfowitz: Democratic imperialist
Noam Chomsky: radical gadfly.