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Missouri innovators : famous (and infamous) Missourians who led the way in their field / Paul W. Bass.
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- ISBN: 9781948901147
- ISBN: 1948901145
- Physical Description: 368 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Morley, MO : Acclaim Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-358) and index. |
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Table of Contents
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgments | p. 9 | |
| Author's Notes | p. 10 | |
| Introduction | p. 12 | |
| Chapter 1 | Entertainers | |
| Josephine Baker | p. 18 | |
| Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | p. 21 | |
| Molly Brown | p. 23 | |
| Walt Disney | p. 27 | |
| Emmett Kelly | p. 31 | |
| Sally Rand | p. 34 | |
| Ginger Rogers | p. 38 | |
| Dick Van Dyke | p. 42 | |
| Ed Asner, Bob Barker, Wallace Berry, Joan Crawford, Robert Cummings, Phyllis Diller, Redd Foxx, John Goodman, Betty Grable, Jean Harlow, John Huston, Kevin Kline, Agnes Moorehead, Steve McQueen, Geraldine Page, Brad Pitt, William Powell, Vincent Price, Kathleen Turner, Jane Wyman, Dennis Weaver | p. 45 | |
| Chapter 2 | Fine Arts | |
| Thomas Hart Benton | p. 48 | |
| Chuck Berry | p. 51 | |
| Carl and Robert Boiler | p. 54 | |
| Grace Bumbry | p. 61 | |
| Walter Cronkite | p. 61 | |
| Scott Joplin | p. 65 | |
| Bill Mauldin | p. 68 | |
| Charlie "Bird" Parker | p. 71 | |
| Joseph Pulitzer | p. 74 | |
| Burt Bacharach, Harry Caray, Sheryl Crow, Jane Froman, Dave Garroway, Ferlin Husky, Johnny Mullins, Stone Phillips, Virgil Thomson, Porter Wagoner | p. 77 | |
| Chapter 3 | Education and Literature | |
| Maya Angelou | p. 80 | |
| Susan Blow | p. 84 | |
| Dale Carnegie | p. 87 | |
| Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) | p. 91 | |
| T. S. Eliot | p. 96 | |
| Langston Hughes | p. 100 | |
| Reinhold N'iebuhr | p. 103 | |
| Marlin Perkins | p. 107 | |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | p. 110 | |
| Tennessee Williams | p. 114 | |
| Walter Williams | p. 118 | |
| Eugene Field, Mary Paxton Keeley, William Least Heat-Moon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Barclay Moon Newman Jr., Sara Teasdale | p. 122 | |
| Chapter 4 | Business | |
| Henry and Richard Bloch | p. 124 | |
| Adolphus Busch | p. 127 | |
| James Buchanan Eads | p. 132 | |
| Joyce Hall | p. 136 | |
| Ewing Kauffman | p. 140 | |
| Johnny Morris | p. 144 | |
| James Cash Penney | p. 148 | |
| Sam Walton | p. 152 | |
| John Danforth, Howard Hughes, James Smith McDonnell, Danny Meyer, Paul Mueller, Jack C. Taylor | p. 156 | |
| Chapter 5 | Science and Technology | |
| George Washington Carver | p. 158 | |
| Thomas Anthony Dooley | p. 163 | |
| Charles Stark Draper | p. 166 | |
| James Fergason | p. 169 | |
| Leonard Goodall | p. 172 | |
| Edwin Hubble | p. 176 | |
| Jack Kilby | p. 181 | |
| William Lear | p. 185 | |
| Thomas Akers, Edwin W. Handler, Joe Jones, Henry Kang, Roscoe Koontz, Nicholas David Caola Kulhnan, Jerry Plunkett, Steven W. Post, Terry Gene Rayburn, Rajesh Talwar, Jason R. Troxel, Joel D. Wiesner, Roy Wilkens | p. 189 | |
| Chapter 6 | Politics and Military | |
| Omar Bradley | p. 192 | |
| William Clark and Meriwether Lewis | p. 197 | |
| Enoch H. Crowder | p. 201 | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | p. 205 | |
| Carrie Nation | p. 210 | |
| Thomas J. Pendergast | p. 215 | |
| John J. Pershing | p. 219 | |
| Phyllis Schlafly | p. 224 | |
| Dred Scott | p. 228 | |
| Harry S Truman | p. 232 | |
| William T. Anderson, John Ashcroft, Enoch Crowder, John C. Fremont, William J. Fulbright, Dick Gregory, Tim Koine, Rush Limbaugh, Sterling Price, Ike Skelton, Maxwell Taylor, Jim Webb, Roy Wilkins, George Allison Whiteman | p. 242 | |
| Chapter 7 | Sports | |
| Henry Armstrong | p. 244 | |
| Yogi Berra | p. 248 | |
| Bob Costas | p. 254 | |
| Joe Garagiola | p. 257 | |
| Stan Musial | p. 261 | |
| Satchel Paige | p. 265 | |
| Casey Stengel | p. 271 | |
| Helen Stephens | p. 277 | |
| Bill Bradley, Dan Faurot, Elston Howard, Cal Hubbard, Hal Irwin, Bob Orton, Mike Shannon, Payne Stewart, Tom Watson, Earl Weaver, Kellon Winslow | p. 280 | |
| Chapter 8 | Others | |
| Daniel Boone | p. 282 | |
| Kit Carson | p. 286 | |
| Jesse and Frank James | p. 290 | |
| Calamity Jane | p. 296 | |
| Charles Lindbergh | p. 299 | |
| William Quantrill | p. 304 | |
| Belle Starr | p. 309 | |
| Sacred Sun | p. 313 | |
| Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Tom Horn, James Earl Ray | p. 316 | |
| Conclusion | p. 317 | |
| Resources and References | p. 318 | |
| About the Author | p. 359 | |
| Index | p. 361 |
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