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1,000 Makers of the Millennium: The Men and Women Who Have Shaped the Last 1,000 Years

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This book was very okay. It offers a very anglo,Euro-centric view of the past 1,000 years, and is very skewed toward the last 50 years. Too many "rock stars" and sports figures for my tastes, and big gaps. I bought this book for my son, and found myself providing alot of caveats. Like how do Madonna and Tiger Woods and Andrew Lloyd Webber shape the world as compared to Albert Einstein, Mao Zedong, and Copernicus? This book makes it hard to imagine the profound influence of Chinese, Persian, Indian, Incan, African cultures on our own. Instead we get a 90 second, myopic refelction of the U.S. In 50 years you would pick up this book and say "who?" to the sports stars and actors, and wonder why they would share a page with Dr. King or Elizabeth I. I don't get it.

1,000 Makers of the Millennium is a wonderful book that reveals the individuals who have shaped the last millenium. This book screams "Give me an award!" It's that good! It's a real shame if this book goes unrewarded by literary organizations. So much scholarship was put into it...it's very evident of that. If you find history boring, this is the book for you! This is probably the most interesting book about history if you ask me. This is a must-have for everyone's personal library. It'll definitely be the most used and most needed resource for ANY report that you have. But this for everyone that you know! You won't regret it. You'll only regret it if you don't buy this book.