The first edition of this incomparable classic was pronounced "very useful ... judicious and very browsable" by the Los Angeles Times. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer found it "hard to put down". Here are more than 6,000 crisp, clear, concise lives of twentieth-century notables from around the world, living and dead, who have made key contributions to every important area in politics, literature, the arts, business, sports, the sciences, and popular culture. The Penguin International Dictionary of Contemporary Biography sets ...
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The first edition of this incomparable classic was pronounced "very useful ... judicious and very browsable" by the Los Angeles Times. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer found it "hard to put down". Here are more than 6,000 crisp, clear, concise lives of twentieth-century notables from around the world, living and dead, who have made key contributions to every important area in politics, literature, the arts, business, sports, the sciences, and popular culture. The Penguin International Dictionary of Contemporary Biography sets each figure in critical and historical perspective, with bibliographies and an index of individuals by category and country.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. New York, Viking, 2001. First edition, first printing. Black quarter cloth over black boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine, 998 pp. This substantial and enjoyably perusable volume contains more than 6, 000 brief biographies of notable men and women of the 20th century. The index arranges entries according to 50 categories, with politics, literature, art, and other large groupings subdivided by nationality. Open the page to "Ford" and there's novelist Ford Maddox Ford, president Gerald Ford, both car-making Henrys, and director John Ford, followed by director Milos Forman, admiral James V. Forrestal, MIT computer lab founder Jay Wright Forrester, Nobel Prize heart physician Werner Forssmann, novelist E.M. Forster, and Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas. Dust jacket has minor rubbing. Text block edge has small discolorations. Near fine in near fine dustjacket, protected by a mylar cover.
