Brad Pitt. Payne Stewart. Josephine Baker. Walter Cronkite. Thomas Pendergast. George Washington Carver. What do these icons have in common? They were all born and raised in the Show Me State. In Missouri Legends, a fun yet informative new book by TV and radio broadcaster John Brown, well-known politicians, authors, artists, athletes, performers, and historical figures come to life. The book profiles more than 100 famous Missourians. Each profile includes a brief account of a legend's childhood and rise to fame, not to mention a nugget or two of entertaining trivia.

Missouri Legends:John Ashcroft --|t Josephine Baker --|t Thomas Hart Benton --|t Yogi Berra --|t Chuck Berry --|t Bill Bradley --|t Dale Carnegie --|t George Washington Carver --|t Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) --|t Walter Cronkite --|t Sheryl Crow --|t Walt Disney --|t T. S. Eliot --|t Edwin Hubble --|t Jesse Woodson James --|t Scott Joplin --|t William Powell Lear --|t Rush Limbaugh --|t Steve McQueen --|t J.C. Penney --|t General John J. Pershing --|t Brad Pitt --|t John Elroy Sanford --|t Payne Stewart --|t Harry S. Truman --|t Sam Walton --|t Laura Ingalls Wilder --|t Tennessee Williams --|t History and Politics: William "Bloody Bill" Anderson --|t Susan Blow --|t Omar Nelson Bradley --|t Martha "Calamity Jane" Cannary --|t John Danforth --|t Charles Stark Draper --|t Ella Ewing --|t Dick Gephardt --|t Michael Harrington --|t Bernarr MacFadden --|t Thomas J. Pendergast --|t Nellie Tayloe Ross --|t Business, Science, and Technology: Henry Bloch --|t The Busch family --|t William Danforth --|t James Buchanan Eads --|t Charles Eames --|t Mary Engelbreit --|t James Fergason --|t Linda Godwin --|t Charles Leiper Grigg --|t George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst --|t Ewing Marion Kauffman --|t Albert Bond Lambert --|t Johnny Morris --|t The O'Reilly family --|t Arts and Entertainment: Robert Altman --|t Scott Bakula --|t Jesse Barnes --|t Robert Bennett --|t George Caleb Bingham --|t Vinson Cole --|t Marlin "Jim" Davis --|t Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards --|t Sara Evans --|t Shandi Finnessey --|t Isadore "Friz" Freleng --|t Jane Froman --|t John Goodman --|t Betty Grable --|t Robert Guillaume --|t Jean Harlow --|t Don Johnson --|t Keven Kline --|t Brad Kroenig --|t Cedric "The Entertainer" Kyles --|t Kimora Lee-Simmons --|t Kathleen Madigan --|t Virginia Mayo --|t Michael McDonald --|t Pat Metheny --|t Nelly --|t Jane Novak --|t Vincent Price --|t Charles Russell --|t David Sanborn --|t St. Louis Rap Scene --|t Jack Wagner --|t Porter Wagoner --|t Dennis Weaver --|t Media and Broadcasting: Jim Bohannon --|t Joe Buck --|t Harry Caray --|t Eugene Field --|t Robert Heinlein --|t Al Hirschfeld --|t Mary Margaret McBride --|t Russ Mitchell --|t Erich "Mancow" Muller --|t Richard Marlin Perkins --|t Stone Phillips --|t Irma Rombauer --|t Sara Teasdale --|t Walter Williams --|t Lanford Wilson --|t Sports Heroes: Forrest "Phog" Allen --|t Anthony Bonner --|t Ken Boyer --|t John Brown --|t David Cone --|t Dwight Davis --|t Joe Garagiola --|t Trent Green --|t Masten Gregory --|t Larry Hughes --|t Jamie McMurray --|t Anthony Peeler --|t Mike Shannon --|t Horton Smith --|t Charles "Casey" Stengel --|t Norm Stewart --|t Steve Stipanovich --|t Jon Sundvold --|t Rick Sutcliffe --|t Lou Thesz --|t Stan Utley --|t The Wallace family --|t Tom Watson --|t Frank White --|t Grant Wistrom.