ISBN:0-9580348-5-0
Category: History, Modern 20th century World History, World Politics - 20th century
Size: 297mm x 230mm
Extent: 200 pp
Format: Hard cover
Foreign Rights available

Dozens of people have helped to create a new world over the past hundred years – some well remembered and some that have been forgotten. People Who Influenced The World documents world leaders, artists and entertainers, scientists and thinkers, heros and icons as well as revolutionaries and dictators. Peter Murray profiles sixty individuals who most influenced the past 100 years.

The book includes sixty people who in some way, have helped create our world including: Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Frank Sinatra, Mother Teresa, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Edwin Hubble, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Christiaan Barnard, Fidel Castro, Jonas E. Salk , Mao Tse Tung, Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, The Wright Brothers, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Harry Houdini, Steven Spielberg, Dalai Lama, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sigmund Freud, The Beatles, Pelè, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Mikhael Gorbachev, Muammar Qaddafi, Anwar Sadat, Pope John Paul 11, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, Al Capone, Yasser Arafat, Idi Amin, Frank McNamara, Nelson Mandela, Diana Princess of Wales, Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso, Anne Frank, Estee Lauder, F.W. de Klerk, Lord Carnarvon, Andy Warhol, Jesse Jackson, Jacques Cousteau, Edmund Hillary, Ray Kroc, William Boeing, Desmond Tutu, Richard Branson, David Suzuki and Aung San Suu Kyi. Where would we be today without the credit card, the airliner, the motor car, movies, McDonalds, Disneyland, fashion and cosmetics. People Who Influenced The World is a tremendous companion for students and a must-have for those interested in world events.

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