The best-selling biographical dictionary of the 1970s revised and updated for this edition. Achievement is the means by which men and women enter the rolls of history -- or become household names. This edition provides an authoritative digest of the actions, ideas and circumstances of the men and women who have shaped, and are now shaping the destiny of the world. It's 2,600 entries are incisive, fact-filled portraits of politicans, religious leaders, sportsmen and women, entertainers, the famous & infamous. enhancing the text are some 150 illustrations which have been selected to enable the reader to put a face to a name, or a shape to an achievement. In photographs and paintings, line drawings and MAPS, the image of history is defined in 256 pages..

Condition of book: Excellent, as new. Book Jacket has wear around edges, and is scotch-taped to book. Tear on edges of book jacket on spine.

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