Norman Mailer / Pete Hamill
Woody Guthrie / Steve Earle
Hank Williams / Mark Jacobson
Michael Harrington / Maurice Isserman
Edward Abbey / Terry Bisson
Murray Kempton / Jack Newfield
Robert Frank / Adam Shatz
Paul O'Dwyer / Jim Callaghan
Cesar Chavez / Peter Edelman
Joe Louis / Budd Schulberg
Aretha Franklin / Gerri Hershey
Jane Jacobs / Roberta Brandes Grantz
Margaret Sanger / Ellen Chesler
Fannie Lou Hamer / Judith Coburn
Samuel Fuller / J. Hoberman
Miles Davis / Lucius Shepard
Thelonius Monk / Stanley Crouch
Theodore Drieser / Richard Lingeman
John Steinbeck / Robert W. Snyder
Mario Puzo / Nicholas Pileggi
Dorothy Day / Wayne Barrett and Chris Barrett
Benjamin Mays / Roger Wilkins
Bella Abzug / Patricia Bosworth
Father Mychal Judge / Terry Golway
Justice William O. Douglas / Nat Hentoff
I.F. Stone / Victor Navasky
Frank Sinatra / Sidney Zion
John Garfield / Mickey Knox
Reverend Norman Edy / Dan Wakefield
Walt Whitman / Richard Gambino
Frederick Wiseman / Stuart Klawans
Curt Flood / Wallace Matthews
Howard T. Odum / Charles Bowden
Curtis Mayfield / Scott Sherman
Clarence Darrow / Danny Goldberg
Paul Wellstone / Joe Conason
Clifford and Virginia Durr / Geoff Cowan
Noam Chomsky / Jay Parini
Rachel Carson / Terry Tempest Williams
Will Rogers / Ray Robinson.