| Description |
448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Summary |
This is the century that split the atom, probed the psyche, spliced genes, and cloned a sheep. Plastic, the silicon chip, and rock-and-roll were invented. Airplanes, rockets, satellites, televisions, computers, and atom bombs were built. Traditional ideas about logic, language, learning, mathematics, economics, and even space and time were overthrown and radically refashioned. This book presents the most influential leaders, artists, intellects, and heroes who shaped this monumental era, selected by the editors of Time magazine and their profiles crafted by some of the era's finest writers.--From publisher description. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
The reporter's century / Dan Rather -- Sigmund Freud / Peter Gay -- Emeline Pankhurst / Marina Warner -- Theodore Roosevelt / Edmund Morris -- Leo Baekeland / Ivan Amato -- Henry Ford / Lee Iacocca -- The Wright Brothers / Bill Gates -- Mohandas Gandhi / Salman Rushdie -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin / David Remnick -- A.P. Giannini / Daniel Kadlec -- Winston Churchill / John Keegan -- Willis Carrier / Molly Ivins -- Albert Einstein / James Gleick -- Margaret Sanger / Gloria Steinem -- Helen Keller / Diane Schuur with David Jackson -- Alexander Fleming / Dr. David Ho -- Pablo Picasso / Robert Hughes -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- James Joyce / Paul Gray -- Igor Stravinsky / Philip Glass -- Robert Goddard / Jeffrey Kluger -- John Maynard Keynes / Robert B. Reich -- Coco Chanel / Ingrid Sischy -- Eleanor Roosevelt / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- Louis B. Mayer / Budd Schulberg -- Charles Edward Merrill / Joseph Nocera -- David Ben-Gurion / Amos Oz -- Le Corbusier / Witold Rybczynski -- The Kennedys / Hugh Sidey -- T.S. Eliot / Helen Vendler -- Adolf Hitler / Elie Wiesel -- Ludwig Wittgenstein / Daniel Dennett -- Charlie Chaplin / Ann Douglas -- Edwin Hubble / Michael D. Lemonick -- Ho Chi Minh / Stanley Karnow -- David Sarnoff / Marcy Carsey & Tom Werner -- Leo Burnett / Stuart Ewen -- Mao Zedong / Jonathan D. Spence -- Martha Graham / Terry Teachout -- Rodgers and Hammerstein / Andrew Lloyd Webber -- Bill W. / Susan Cheever -- Jean Piaget / Seymour Papert -- Lucky Luciano / Edna Buchanan -- Juan Trippe / Richard Branson -- Stephen Bechtel / George J. Church -- Louis Armstrong / Stanley Crouch -- Enrico Fermi / Richard Rhodes -- Walt Disney / Richard Schickel -- Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini / Milton Viorst -- Charles Lindbergh / Reeve Lindbergh -- Ray Kroc / Jacques Pépin -- The Leakey Family / Donald C. Johanson -- Kurt Godel / Douglas Hofstadter -- Philo Farnsworth / Neil Postman -- William Levitt / Richard Lacayo -- Rachel Carson / Peter Matthiessen -- Walter Reuther / Irving Bluestone -- William Shockley / Gordon Moore -- Estée Lauder / Grace Mirabella -- Mother Teresa / Bharati Mukherjee -- Ronald Reagan / Peggy Noonan -- Lucille Ball / Richard Zoglin -- Alan Turing / Paul Gray -- Rosa Parks / Rita Dove -- Hillary and Tenzing / Jan Morris -- Thomas Watson Jr. / John Greenwald -- Jonas Salk / Wilfrid Sheed -- Frank Sinatra / Bruce Handy -- Watson and Crick / Robert Wright -- Sam Walton / John Huey -- Nelson Mandela / André Brink -- Billy Graham / Harold Bloom -- Jackie Robinson / Henry Aaron -- Pope John Paul II / William F. Buckley Jr. -- Akio Morita / Kenichi Ohmae -- Andrei Sakharov / Fang Lizhi with Romesh Ratnesar -- Marlon Brando / Richard Schickel -- Margaret Thatcher / Paul Johnson -- Pete Rozelle / Michael Lewis -- Marilyn Monroe / Paul Rudnick -- Che Guevara / Ariel Dorfman -- Martin Luther King Jr. / Jack E. White -- Anne Frank / Roger Rosenblatt -- Harvey Milk / John Cloud -- Mikhail Gorbachev / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Jim Henson / James Collins -- The Beatles / Kurt Loder -- Pelé / Henry Kissinger -- Bruce Lee / Joel Stein -- Bob Dylan / Jay Cocks -- The American GI / Colin Powell -- Muhammad Ali / George Plimpton -- Aretha Franklin / Christopher John Farley -- Lech Walesa / Timothy Garton Ash -- Steven Spielberg / Rober Ebert -- Oprah Winfrey / Deborah Tannen -- Tim Berners-Lee / Joshua Quittner -- Bill Gates / David Gelernter -- Diana, Princess of Wales / Ian Buruma -- Bart Simpson / Richard Corliss -- Unknown Tiananmen Square Rebel / Pico Iyer |
| Subject |
Biography -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
CBS News.
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| Added Title |
Time.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: People of the century. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999 (OCoLC)607462843 |
| ISBN |
0684870932 |
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9780684870939 |
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