Updated Edition
This encyclopedia provides authoritative coverage of the lives and achievements of key international political figures that have been instrumental in shaping political events and opinion during the 20th century.
It includes:
- over 2000 alphabetically arranged biographies, from Emperor Hirohito to J Edgar Hoover, and from Alex Salmond to Ken Saro-Wiwa
- over 90 feature biographies presenting rich details on the most influential political figures
- 400 reading lists of the most thought-provoking and enjoyable biographies and memoirs
- quotations revealing what major figures thought - and what others thought of them.
