Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Books/Writings
William James
1842 – 1910
American

A medical doctor, philosopher, pioneering psychologist, and self-proclaimed "radical empiricist" James wrote on religion, ethics, mysticism, and psychology and originated the term "stream of consciousness." He is best known as the author of The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Contemporaries
1801–1877Brigham Young
1896–1986Wallis Windsor
1895–1951William Wilson
1856–1924Woodrow Wilson
1856–1923Kate Wiggin
1878–1958John Watson
1907–1979John Wayne
1856–1915Booker T. Washington
1891–1974Earl Warren
1877–1936William Walling
1888–1953Jim Thorpe
1894–1961James Thurber
1899–1979Allen Tate
1811–1896Harriet Beecher Stowe
1818–1893Lucy Stone
1815–1902Elizabeth Stanton
1903–1998Benjamin Spock
1904–1990B. F. Skinner
1852–1916Charles Russell
1879–1935Will Rogers
1885–1954Ruth Rohde
1910–2004Laurance Rockefeller
1898–1976Paul Robeson
1874–1960John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1880–1973Jeannette Rankin
1889–1979A. Philip Randolph
1872–1960Emily Post
1892–1964Cole Porter
1908–1996Roger Peterson
1898–1993Norman Vincent Peale
1885–1945George Patton
1871–1955Maud Park
1846–1911Carry Nation
1793–1880Lucretia Mott
1900–1949Margaret Mitchell
1891–1980Henry Miller
1781–1849William Miller
1880–1956H. L. Mencken
1855–1942Clinton Merriam
1890–1944Aimee McPherson
1901–1978Margaret Mead
1895–1989John McCloy
1909–1957Joseph McCarthy
1885–1957Louis Mayer
1895–1977Groucho Marx
1901–1979Zeppo Marx
1893–1961Harpo Marx
1891–1961Chico Marx
1880–1959George Marshall
1908–1993Thurgood Marshall
1880–1964Douglas MacArthur
1889–1974Walter Lippmann
1887–1948Aldo Leopold
1807–1870Robert E. Lee
1894–1956Alfred Kinsey
1859–1932Florence Kelley
1880–1968Helen Keller
1908–1973Lyndon Johnson
1819–1910Julia Howe
1848–1908Joel Harris
1805–1879Angelina Grimke
1792–1873Sarah Grimke
1869–1940Emma Goldman
1839–1897Henry George
1805–1879William Garrison
1886–1953Douglas Southall Freeman
1897–1962William Faulkner
1821–1910Mary Baker Eddy
1837–1899Dwight Moody
1817–1895Frederick Douglass
1901–1966Walt Disney
1886–1961Ty Cobb
1864–1943George Washington Carver
1888–1955Dale Carnegie
1860–1925William Jennings Bryan
1901–2000Carl Barks
1800–1891George Bancroft
1771–1852Hosea Ballou
1876–1965George Baker
1832–1899Horatio Alger
1902–2001Mortimer Adler