Here in one handy volume on hundred of the greatest lives of all time. Immensely more informative than entries in a biographical dictionary, a mere fraction of the bulk and cost of the equivalent number of book-length biographies - even if they were all available - 100 Great Lives is a work of exceptionally wide appeal.

This new edition of this well-established and ever-popular book has been extensively revised and up-dated. 100 Great Lives comes as a proven contribution to the literature of people, and a never-failing source of good reading and informed writing.