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Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
Jane Addams, Activist (1860) |
Bruno Bauer, Theologian (1809) |
Henry Seidel Canby, Critic (1878) |
John Dalton, Scientist (1766) |
Robyn Davidson, Writer (1950) |
Carly Fiorina, Businesswoman (1954) |
Naveen Jain, Businessman (1959) |
William R. Keating, Politician (1952) |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Diplomat (1888) |
Marquis De Lafayette, Revolutionary (1757) |
Philip James Bailey, Poet (1902) |
Hanns Eisler, Composer (1962) |
Edmund Gibson, Judge (1748) |
Herbert Kaufman, Writer (1947) |
Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist (2007) |