1,000 years, 1,000 people : ranking the men and women who shaped the millennium

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Title:

1,000 years, 1,000 people : ranking the men and women who shaped the millennium

Other title(s):

One thousand years, one thousand people

ISBN:

9781568362533

9781568362731

Publication:

New York : Kodansha International, 1998.

Physical Description:

xix, 331 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

A Guide to the BioGraph System ix -- The List xi -- Entries -- Ten Who Almost Made It 301 -- Some Interesting Facts 303 -- Your Chance for Fifteen Minutes of Fame 332.

Summary:

The authors ranked one thousand people, based on a grading system, the BioGraph, which considers lasting influence, effect on the sum total of wisdom and beauty in the world, influence on contemporaries, singularity of contribution, and charisma.

Subject(s):

Biography -- Dictionaries.

Genre:

dictionaries.

Added Author:

Gottlieb, Agnes Hooper.

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This text presents a list of 1000 of the most important, influential and intriguing figures of the past millennium. Among the figures profiled are philosophers and artists, statesmen and warlords, inventors and explorers. Each person is profiled with a brief autobiography.

Author Notes

Brent Bowers is a business editor at The New York Times.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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List lovers, rejoice! The millennium inspires this highly opinionated compendium, based on decisions--who's in, who's out, who's high, who's low--with which dedicated trivia nuts may wish to quibble. The authors impose order by awarding up to 10,000 points for lasting influence; up to 5,000 for "effect on the sum total of wisdom and beauty in the world" (positive or, as in the case of Hitler, negative); up to 4,000 points for influence on contemporaries; up to 3,000 for "singularity of contribution"; and up to 2,000 for charisma. Gutenberg leads the list with 21,768 points; Andy Warhol is number 1,000, with 1,000 points. (Numbers 2 through 10 are Columbus, Luther, Galileo, Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin, Aquinas, Da Vinci, and Beethoven, in that order.) Yes, the ranking is Western oriented, but Gandhi ranks number 12, and Genghis Khan, Mao, Peter the Great, Tolstoy, and Lenin make the top 50. Brief biographies of these "millennium-shapers" may spur further reading. --Mary Carroll

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. vii
A Guide to the BioGraph System	p. ix
The List	p. xi
Entries
1-100	p. 1
101-200	p. 31
201-300	p. 61
301-400	p. 91
401-500	p. 121
501-600	p. 151
601-700	p. 181
701-800	p. 211
801-900	p. 241
901-1,000	p. 271
Ten Who Almost Made It	p. 301
Some Interesting Facts	p. 303
Where They Lived	p. 303
When They Lived	p. 304
How They Lived	p. 305
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 315
Your Chance for Fifteen Minutes of Fame	p. 332

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