Concise Dictionary of Great 20th Century Biographies

by Kathryn Knox Soman and Rh Value Publishing

A fascinating A-to-Z reference that will provide hours of educational fun profiles three hundred extraordinary individuals who helped to shape the course of the twentieth century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517180693
• ISBN13: 9780517180693
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 553 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

In general very well selected and written

This volume of three- hundred biographical sketches generally chooses very worthy and memorable subjects. It avoids the monstrous evil names, and focuses more on those of considerable positive achievement. It is generally accurate, and I found that in reading biographies of people whose stories I know well, for instance Kafka and Salinger that there was 'new information' for me also. Though there are some entries I would have preferred not seeing , and which I thought misleading, in general this is truly a fine piece of work.