I. Introduction

• •examples of how, especially in a times of change, people cling to traditional values



• •and of how, in popular culture, heroes are created and endowed with the qualities people want them to have - how, in other words, popular heroes may be admired not for what they really are but for what people want to believe they are



• •myth and reality in the 1920s

II. Ford's career

• •Youth



• •Ford Motor Co. (1903)
• •Model T Ford (1908-1927)



• •the Ford myth

III. Lindbergh's career

• •Youth



• •flight to Paris (May 1927)



• •the Lindbergh myth

IV. Conclusion

• •Ford and Lindbergh as symbols of both modern progress and traditional values



• •not-so-heroic realities

• •what these popular heroes tell us about America in the 1920s