1,000 Years, 1,000 People Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium

Description:

This fascinating compilation of the 1,000 most important, influential, and intriguing figures of this past millennium ranks the top ones and profiles each with a brief biography and a discussion of his or her importance in history.

Selected Reviews:

"...[T]his book does a pretty good job with a suspect undertaking. Having a thousand slots to fill gives the compilers room to roam freely through history and across disciplines, collecting names."

--Jennifer Howard, Washington Post Book World