THE SOUL OF AMERICA Characters By Chapter	EDITOR: Remy Hale

CH FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION 1     The Confidence of the Whole People   John Winthrop Leading figures in founding Massachusetts Bay Colony.   Ronald Reagan 40th U.S. President.   Henry Clay Former American senator.   Andrew Jackson 7th U.S. President.   Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President.   Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President.   George Washington 1st U.S. President.   Thomas Paine An English-born American political activist.   James Madison 4th U.S. President.   Edmund Randolph The seventh Governor of Virginia.   Alexander Hamilton Founding Fathers of the United States.   Donald Trump 45th U.S. President. Walter Bagehot A British journalist.   James Bryce An Irish-born academic, jurist, historian, and Liberal politician.   Harry S. Truman 33rd U.S. President.   John F. Kennedy 35th U.S. President.   Lyndon B. Johnson 36th U.S. President.   John Jay Former Governor of New York.   John C. Calhoun Former Vice President of the United States.   Lewis Cass Former United States Senator.   Frederick Douglass An American social reformer, abolitionist.   Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President. Aka: Teddy or TR.   James Buchanan 15th U.S. President.   Woodrow Wilson 28th U.S. President.   Charles Darwin An English naturalist, geologist and biologist.   Isaac Newton English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian.   FranklinD. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President. Aka: FDR.   Oliver Wendel  Holmes Jr. Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.   Plato   An Athenian philosopher.   Potter Stewart Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.   Orson Welles An American actor, director, writer and producer.   Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th U.S. President.   Ralph Waldo Emerson An American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.   Garry Wills An American author, journalist, and historian.   Aristotle   A Greek philosopher and polymath.   Cicero   Roman statesman.   John Locke An English philosopher and physician.   Algernon Sidney An English politician.   Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. An American historian.   James Wilson A patriot leader during the American Revolution.   John Adams 2nd U.S. President.   Robert A. Nisbet American sociologist, professor at University of California.   Hesiod   An ancient Greek poet.   Xenophanes   Greek philosopher, theologian, poet and religious critic.   Anne Robert Turgot A French economist and statesman.   Marquis de Condorcet A French philosopher and mathematician.   Adam Smith A Scottish economist, philosopher, and author.   Niccolò Machiavelli An Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer.   Sojourner Truth An American abolitionist and women's rights activist.   Elizabeth Stanton An American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist. 2     The Long Shadow of Appomattox   Robert Edward Lee An American Confederate general.   Ulysses S. Grant 18th U.S. President.   Wilmer McLean An American wholesale grocer from Virginia.   Andrew Johnson 17th U.S. President.   Rutherford B. Hayes 19th U.S. President.   Preston Brooks Former member of the U.S. House of Representative.   Charles Sumner Former United States Senator.   John Brown An American abolitionist.   Robert Penn Warren An American poet, novelist, and literary critic.   James Louis Petigru An American lawyer, politician, and jurist.   William H. Seward Former United States Secretary of State.   Jefferson Davis Former President of the Confederate States.   Alexander H. Stephens Politician served as the VP of the Confederate States.   William Henry Herndon Law partner and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln.   Horace Greeley An American newspaper editor and publisher.   Julia Ward Howe An American poet and author.   Comer Vann Woodward A Pulitzer-prize winning American historian.   William Lloyd Garrison Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and reformer.   Noah Brooks An American journalist and editor.   Thomas Lincoln III The fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary. Aka: Tad.   Edward Alfred Pollard An American author active as a journalist in Virginia.   Jubal A. Early A Virginia lawyer and politician.   Thomas M. Jones A Tax Law attorney in Chicago.   Claude Bowers A newspaper columnist and editor.   Nathan B. Forrest Prominent as a Confederate Army general.   Andrew Nelson Lytle American novelist, dramatist and professor of literature.   William T. Sherman An American soldier.   Dred Scott An enslaved African American man in the United States.   Benjamin F. Wade Former United States Senator.   Eric Foner An American historian.   Thaddeus Stevens Former United States Representative.   Wendell Phillips An American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans.   Thomas Ewing Jr. First chief justice of Kansas and leading free state advocate.   John Sherman Former Secretary of State.   James M. Leach A congressman from North Carolina.   Amos T. Akerman Former U.S. Attorney General.   Samuel J. Tilden Former Governor of New York.   Benjamin Tillman An American politician of the Democratic Party.   W.E.B. Du Bois American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist.   John Marshall Harlan Served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. 3     With Soul of Flame and Temper of Steel   Edith Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt's wife.   Elihu Root Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt.   Victor H. Metcalf President Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet Secretary.   Oscar Straus Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor.   William Loeb Jr. Presidential secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt .   Israel Zangwill A British author.   Richard Wagner German composer, theatre director and conductor.   Christopher Columbus An Italian explorer and navigator.   David Quixano A Jewish immigrant came to the United States.   Walker Whiteside American actor who played Hamlet, Othello, King Lear.   Anthony Trollope An English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era.   Martha B. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt's mother.   John Long A former prizefighter.   Alice R. Longworth Theodore Roosevelt's daughter.   Ida Tarbell An American writer, investigative journalist, and biographer.   Jacob Riis An American-Danish journalist.   Chester A. Arthur 21st U.S. President.   Samuel Gompers An American-British labor union leader.   Herman Gutstadt An author.   Herbert Spencer English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist.   John Fiske An American philosopher and historian.   Rudyard Kipling An English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.   Winston Churchill Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.   Henry Cabot Lodge Former American senator.   Elizabeth I   Queen of England.   Madison Grant An American lawyer, writer, and zoologist.   Edward A. Ross A progressive American sociologist.   James G. Blaine Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.   Henry W. Longfellow An American poet and educator.   Booker T. Washington American educator and adviser to multiple presidents.   William McKinley 25th U.S. President.   John R. Lynch Black Republican politician, writer and military officer.   Minnie M. Cox First African-American woman to serve as U.S. postmaster.   Dr. William L. Crum A Family Medicine Doctor in Meridian, ID.   William H. Taft 27th U.S. President.   Thomas G. Dyer Vice President Emeritus at the University of Georgia.   Jane Addams An American settlement activist, reformer, social worker. 4     A New and Good Thing in the World   Alice Paul An American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist.   Emmeline Pankhurst A British political activist.   Abigail   John Adams' wife.   Lucretia Mott A women's rights activist, abolitionist and religious reformer.   Susan B. Anthony An American social reformer and women's rights activist.   Jean H. Baker An American historian.   Henry David Thoreau An American essayist, poet, and philosopher.   Carrie C. Catt An American women's suffrage leader.   Ellen   Woodrow Wilson's wife.   William M. Trotter A newspaper editor.   Oswald G. Villard American journalist and editor of New York Evening Post.   John Milton Cooper Jr. An American historian, author, and educator.   James K. Vardaman An American politician from the U.S state of Mississippi.   Thomas Hardwick An American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.   Thomas W. Dixon An writer.   David Wark Griffith An American film director.   Lillian Gish American actress.   William J. Simmons American coronel and preacher.   Mrs. C. Helen Plane A charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.   Gutzon Borglum An American sculptor.   Thomas J. Jackson Confederate General during Civil War. aka: Stonewall.   Mary Elizabeth Tyler An Atlanta public-relations professional . Aka: Bessie.   Edward Y. Clarke The Imperial Wizard pro tempore of the Ku Klux Klan.   David H. Bennett A Professor for History in the Syracuse University.   Hugo Black Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.   Albert S. Burleson United States Postmaster General and Representative.   Eugene V. Debs An American socialist, political activist. Aka: Gene.   Warren G. Harding 29th U.S. President.   A. Mitchell Palmer United States Attorney General.   James   Franklin D. Roosevelt's son.   Nicolas Longworth Alice Roosevelt's husband.   Eleanor   Franklin Roosevelt's wife.   Sara Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt's mother.   Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary, political theorist and politician.   Frederick L. Allen Editor of Harper's Magazine and an American historian.   Vladimir Lenin Former Premier of the Soviet Union.   Sinclair Lewis An American novelist, short story writer and playwright.   Georgo T. Babbit A retired United States Air Force four star general.   Katherine F. Gerould An American writer and essayist.   Irwin Hood Hoover Served as the White House Chief Usher. Aka: Ike.   Robert K. Murray Professor of history at the Pennsylvania State Univ.   George Bernard Shaw An Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.   Charles Evans Hughes Former Chief Justice of the United States.   Felix Frankfurter Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.   Arthur G. Hays American lawyer and general counsel of the ACLU.   T. Lothrop Stoddard Supremacist historian, journalist, and political scientist.   F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.   Thomas Bailey Aldrich American writer, poet, critic, and editor.   Emma Lazarus American author of poetry and prose.   Hiram Wesley Evans An American dentist.   Rory M. McVeigh An American sociologist.   Clifford Walker An American attorney and politician from Georgia.   Thomas W. Hardwick American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.   Calvin Coolidge 30th U.S. President.   Alfred E. Smith Former Governor of New York.   Bainbridge Colby Lawyer and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State.   Edmund Moore A politician from Ohio.   William R. Pattangal A Maine politician.   Carroll Miller Pattangal's acquaintance.   Cameron A. Morrison 55th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.   Jared Y. Sanders Former Governor of Louisiana.   William J. Bryan Former United States Secretary of State.   William G. McAdoo Former member of the United States Senate.   John W. Davis An American politician, diplomat and lawyer.   H. L. Menchen An American journalist, essayist.   Clarence Darrow An American lawyer.   William Allen White An American newspaper editor.   Rev. Charles Jefferson The pastor of the Central Congregational Church at Chelsea.   Benito Mussolini Former Prime Minister of Italy.   Willis Van Devanter Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.   Joseph McCarthy Former American senator.   Pat Harrison Former United States Senator.   William E. Chancellor American academic and writer.   Florence   Harding's wife.   James S. Faulkner An English actor.   Basil E. Newton Khan's Imperial Counsel.   Charles G. Dawes Former Vice President of the United States.   Jerry L. Wallace A Coolidge scholar.   David C. Stephenson A convicted murderer and rapist. Aka: Steve.   Henry H. Proctor A noted author and lecturer. 5     The Crisis of the Old Order   Herbert Hoover 31st U.S. President.   Bernard M. Baruch American financier, stock investor, and political consultant.   David M. Kennedy An American historian.   Huey Long Former Governor of Louisiana.   Douglas MacArthur An American five-star general.   Giuseppe Zangara Italian immigrant naturalized United States citizen. Aka: Joe.   Vincent Astor An American businessman and philanthropist.   Anton Cermak Former Mayor of Chicago.   Raymond Moley An American political economist.   John Maynard Keynes British economist.   Charles Coughlin American-Canadian priest.   William R. Manchester An American author, biographer, and historian.   Smedley Butler A senior United States Marine Corps officer.   J. Edgar Hoover Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.   John W. McCormack Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.   Samuel Dickstein A New York State Supreme Court Justice.   Jules Archer An American author.   Adolf Hitler A German politician and leader of the Nazi Party.   Nathanael West An American author and screenwriter.   Horatio Alger An American writer of young adult novels.   Shagpoke Whipple A former banker.   James Farley One of the first Irish Catholic politicians in American history.   T. Harry Williams An American historian.   Earle Christenberry Native of New Orleans and resident of River Ridge.   Kenneth McKellar American politician from Tennessee.   Alben w. Barkley Former Vice President of the United States.   Raymond G. Swing An American print and broadcast journalist.   Louis Howe An American reporter for the New York Herald.   Lawrence Dennis An American diplomat, consultant and author.   Hugh S. Johnson U.S. Army officer - member of the Brain Trust of F.D.R.   Walter Lippmann An American writer, reporter and political commentator.   Lucy Mercer Rutherford American woman known for her affair to Pres. Roosevelt.   James M. Cox Former U.S. representative from Ohio.   Samuel Rosenman Former White House Counsel.   Rexford Tugwell An economist who became FDR's adviser.   Endicott Peabody Former Governor of Massachusetts.   Harry Hopkins The 8th Secretary of Commerce and FDR's closest adviser.   Robert E. Sherwood An American playwright and a screenwriter.   Martha Gellhorn An American novelist, travel writer, and journalist.   Sherwood Anderson An American novelist and short story writer.   John Gunther An American journalist and author.   Arthur Krock American journalist.   William Bullitt Jr. An American diplomat, journalist, and novelist.   George Gallup An American pioneer of survey sampling techniques.   Ronald Lindsay The former president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry.   Louis Ludlow A Democratic Indiana congressman.   Charles Lindberg An American aviator.   William Borah Former United States Senator.   John Nance Garner Former Vice President of the United States.   Genghis Khan The first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire.   Xerxes I   The fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire.   Wendell Willkie An American lawyer.   Henry Morgenthau Jr. Former United States Secretary of the Treasury.   Norman Thomas An American Presbyterian minister.   John T. Flynn An American journalist.   Henry Ford An American industrialist and business magnate.   Fritz Julius Kuhn The leader of the German American Bund.   Arthur Bell An American journalist, author and LGBT rights activist.   Gerald L.K. Smith An American clergyman and populist political organizer.   Elbert Williams Founding member of the NAACP - Haywood Branch.   H.G. Wells An English writer.   Felix Frankfurter Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.   Roy Wilkins A prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.   Walter White An African-American civil rights activist who led the NAACP.   Will Alexander A poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist.   Henry A. Wallace Former U.S. Vice President.   Marian Anderson An American singer of classical music and spirituals.   Harold L. Ickes Served as United States Secretary of the Interior.   A. Philip Randolph An American labor unionist, civil rights activist.   Henry L. Stimson Former Secretary of State.   Chase A. Clark Former Governor of Idaho.   Earl Warren Former Governor of California.   Hugo Black Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.   Joseph W. Stilwell A World War II army officer.   Mary Masuda Kazuo's sister.   Kazuo Masuda A staff sergeant in the U.S. military.   Edward R. Murrow An American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.   Richard Breitman An American historian.   Allan J. Lichtman An American political historian.   Gerhard L. Weinberg An American military historian.   George Marshall Former United States Secretary of State.   Russell Linaka A forestry employee for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.   Anna   Franklin Roosevelt's daughter.   John Boettiger Franklin Roosevelt's son-in-law.   Edwin Watson Franklin Roosevelt's aide.   Margaret Sukley Franklin Roosevelt's cousin. Aka: Daisy.   Robert E. Sherwood An American playwright and screenwriter. 6     Have You No Sense Of Decency?   Adlai Stevenson II Former Governor of Illinois.   John Jay Hopkins The founder and president of General Dynamics.   James T. Patterson An American historian.   Edward Heath Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.   Euripides   One of the three ancient Greek tragedians.   J. Hector St. John A French-American writer.   William H. Taft 27th U.S. President.   Ganesh Sitaraman An American legal scholar.   Walter Bagehot A British journalist, businessman, and essayist.   Horatio Alger Jr. An American writer of young adult novels.   Henry Clay Former American senator.   William L. Shirer An American journalist.   Robert Welch Jr. An American businessman and political organizer.   John Foster Dulles Former United States Secretary of State.   Daniel Webster Former Secretary of State.   Joseph McCarthy Former American senator.   Martin Dies Jr. Former United States Representative.   William Loeb Jr. The Presidential secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt.   Klaus Fuchs A German theoretical physicist and atomic spy.   Julius Rosenberg American convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union.   Ethel Rosenberg Julius' wife also convicted of spying.   Richard Nixon 37th U.S. President.   Whittaker Chambers An American writer-editor and former communist spy.   George Reedy Former White House Press Secretary.   Roy M. Cohn Lawyer and Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel.   Elizabeth II   The Queen of the United Kingdom.   Margaret C. Smith Former member of the U.S. Senate.   David Oshinsky American historian.   John W. Bricker Former United States Senator.   Frank Paul Zeidler An American politician and mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.   Richard H. Rovere An American political journalist.   Robert F. Kennedy Former United States Attorney General.   John F. Kennedy 35th U.S. President.   John Paul Jones The United States' first well-known naval commander.   Richard Hofstadter American historian.   Edwin R. Bayley A journalist.   Edwin Palmer Hoyt An American writer who specialized in military history.   Murrey Marder A Washington Post reporter for 39 years.   Philip Leslie Graham An American newspaperman.   David Halberstam American writer, journalist, and historian.   Walter J. Kohler Jr. Former Governor of Wisconsin.   Sherman Adams Former White House Chief of Staff.   Omar Bradley Senior officer of the United States Army.   G. David Schine The central figure in the Army-McCarthy hearings.   Dashiell Hammett American author.   Benjamin C. Bradlee One of the most prominent journalists of post-World War II.   Joseph N. Welch Lawyer served as chief counsel for the U.S. Army.   Ralph Flanders Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont.   Prescott Bush Former United States Senator.   John Birch United States American Baptist minister and missionary.   William A. Rusher Lawyer, author, and conservative syndicated columnist.   William F. Buckley Jr. American conservative author and commentator.   Barry Goldwater Former American senator.   Robert A. Taft Former United States Senator.   Msgr. John K. Cartwright Pastor at Immaculate Conception.   Sam Rayburn Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. 7     What The Hell Is The Presidency For?   John W. McCormack Former Speaker of the United States House Representatives.   Lady Bird Johnson President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife.   Martin Luther King Jr. African American minister and activist.   Yolanda   Martin Luther's daughter.   Rev. Walter Fauntroy Martin Luther's colleague.   Nick Kotz American journalist, author, and historian.   Albert Gore Sr. Former U.S. Representative.   Estes Kefauver Former U.S. Representative.   Whitney Young American civil rights leader.   Richard Wright Author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.   Hubert Humphrey Former Vice President of the United States.   Strom Thurmond Former United States Senator.   Earl Warren Former Governor of California.   Maya Angelou American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.   Willie   Angelou's uncle.   Robert Penn Warren American poet, novelist, and literary critic.   Gerald L. K. Smith American clergyman and populist political organizer.   George Wallace Former Governor of Alabama.   John Patterson Former Governor of Alabama.   Jefferson Davis Former President of the Confederate States.   Marshall Frady American journalist and author.   William L. Shirer American journalist and war correspondent.   Rev. Edward Hightower Served as pastor of the Mt. Moriah M. B. Church.   Edward Alfred Pollard American author active as a journalist in Virginia.   John C. Stennis Former American senator.   Helen Williams An employee at the vice president's office of U.S.   Gene   Helen William's husband.   Martin Luther King Sr. Martin Luther Junior's father.   Rosa Parks American activist in the civil rights movement .   E. D. Nixon American civil rights leader.   Taylor Branch American author and historian.   Mahalia Jackson American gospel singer.   Russell Baker British Postwar & Contemporary painter.   Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter.   Charlton Heston American actor and political activist.   Marlon Brando Jr. American actor and film director.   A. Philip Randolph Labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician.   Michael Beschloss Historian specializing in the United States presidency.   Preston Bruce Served as a White House doorman.   Katharine M. Graham American publisher.   James H. Rowe American lawyer.   Richard Russell Jr. Former member of the United States Senate.   Hubert Humphrey Former Vice President of the United States.   Everett Dirksen Former member of the United States Senate.   Ramsay Clark Lawyer, activist and former federal government official.   Charles L. Weltner American jurist and politician.   Nicholas Katzenbach American lawyer served as United States Attorney General.   Bill D. Moyers Former White House Press Secretary.   Theodore C. Sorenson President Kennedy's counsel and speechwriter.   Joseph W. Bailey Sr. Former United States Senator.   William Leuchtenburg Leading scholar of life and career of Franklin D Roosevelt.   Gerald Ford 38th U.S. President.   Hosea Williams American civil rights leader.   Buford Ellington Former Governor of Tennessee.   Richard N. Goodwin American writer.   Marvin Watson President Johnson's aide.   Terry Sanford Former Governor of North Carolina.   John P. Roche President Johnson's adviser.   Coretta S. King The wife of Martin Luther King Jr.   R.W. Apple Jr. An associate editor at The New York Times.   Jacqueline Kennedy Former First Lady of the United States.   Roger Eugene Ailes American television executive and media consultant.   Shirley Chisholm American politician, educator, and author.   Barbara Jordan The first African American elected to the Texas Senate.   Henry B. Gonzalez American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Texas.   Vernon Jordan Business executive and civil rights activist in the U.S.   Julian Bond Social activist and leader of the civil rights movement.   Harry Middleton A southern American nature writer   Hugh Sidey American journalist.   Nick Katz American mathematician.