Synopsis This selection of 100 biographical profiles and photographs pairs distinguished writers with people who shaped the 20th century: Peter Gay on Freud, Edmund Morris on Theodore Roosevelt, David Gelerntner on Bill Gates (and Bill Gates on the Wright brothers), David Remnick on Lenin, and Stanley Crouch on Louis Armstrong. Other subjects include Gandhi, Lenin, Margaret Sanger, Rosa Parks, Pope John Paul II, T. S. Eliot, Martha Graham, Walt Disney, William Levitt of Levittown fame, and Bill W., a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-11-01 | | Narrated by: | Brian Dennehy, Dan Rather, Olympia Dukakis |
| Size | | Height: | 5.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Publisher's Note Profiles influential political leaders, artists, scientists, intellects, tycoons, and heroes of the twentieth century.
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