Contents include: Cleopatra-- Benjamin Franklin-- Marie Antoinette-- Lord Byron-- George Sand-- Harriet Beecher Stowe-- Ada Lovelace-- Frederick Douglass-- Wild Bill Hickok-- John Wilkes Booth-- Nikola Tesla-- Teddy Roosevelt-- Annie Oakley-- Nellie Bly-- W. E. B. DuBois-- Czarina Alexandra-- Harry Houdini-- Mata Hari-- Isadora Duncan-- Mustafa Kemal Ataurk-- Pablo Picasso-- Coco Channel-- T. E. Lawrence-- Jim Thorpe-- Duke Kahanamoku-- Bessie Colman-- Dorothy Parker-- Amelia Earhart-- Ernest Hemingway-- Leni Riefenstahl-- Salvador Dali-- Bugsy Siegel-- Josephine Baker-- Frida Kahlo-- Carmen Miranda-- Albert Camus-- Eddie Chapman-- Maya Deren-- Eva Peron-- Helen Gurley Brown-- Fidel Castro-- Cesar Chavez-- Che Guevara-- Sylvia Plath-- Gloria Steinem-- Jane Goodall-- Roberto Clemente-- Bruce Lee-- Huey P. Newton-- Benazir Bhutto-- Index.
Summary:
Compiles photos and life stories of 50 of history's most alluring men and women, offering insight into their lasting influence while sharing basic statistics, whimsical sidebars and "crushability" rankings for each.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.