The 21st century (2000-2017) / the editors at Salem Press.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salem Press, editor, issuing body.

Series:

Great lives from history.

Great Lives from History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography--21st century.

Biography.

Twenty-first century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 volumes (xv, 752 pages)) : color illustrations.

Edition:

Eighth edition.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; [Amenia, New York] : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

This book profiles the most notable figures in 21st Century politics, literature, education, journalism, science, business, and sports from around the world. For each person, a look at their upbringing, how the individual gained recognition in their chosen field, emphasizing the most significant achievements in the figure's life and career, and an overview of the importance of the individual's accomplishments, and why it is important to study this individual is provided.

Contents:

Bill Richardson

Gerhard Richter

Chris Rock

Sally Ride

Mitt Romney

Philip Roth

Hassan Rouhani

J.K. Rowling

Robert Rubin

Donald Rumsfeld

Burt Rutan

Ken Salazar

Sheryl Sandberg

Bernie Sanders

Adam Sandler

Nicolas Sarkozy

George Saunders

Antonin Scalia

Nicole Scherzinger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bobby Seale

David Sedaris

Ariel Sharon

Al Sharpton

Muzammil H. Siddiqi

Alicia Silverstone

O.J. Simpson

Ruth Simmons

John Singleton

Tavis Smiley

Patti Smith

Will Smith

Edward Snowden

Susan Sontag

George Soros

Sonia Sotomayor

David Souter

Eliot Spitzer

Howard Stern

John Paul Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Jon Stewart

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Jens Stoltenberg

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Meryl Streep

Bhaskar Sunkara

Aaron Swartz

Antonio Taguba

George Takei

Amy Tan

Terence Tao

Clarence Thomas

Laurence Tribe

Justin Trudeau

Donald Trump

Mike Tyson

Loung Ung

J. Craig Venter

Alice Walker

David Foster Wallace

Hines Ward

Rick Warren

Denzel Washington

Alice Waters

Maxine Waters

Matthew Weiner

Cornel West

Kanye West

Paul Weyrich

Serena Williams

Sunita Williams

August Wilson

William Julius Wilson

Oprah Winfrey

Naomi Wolf

Paul Wolfowitz

Steve Wozniak

Gene Luen Yang

Viktor Yanukovych

Janet Yellen

Ada E. Yonath

John Yoo

Malala Yousafzai

Fareed Zakaria

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Slavoj Zizek

Mark Zuckerberg

Categories

Index. Larry King

Barbara Kingsolver

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Naomi Klein

Beyonce Knowles

Paul Krugman

Lady Gaga

Jhumpa Lahiri

Sergey Lavrov

Ursula K. Le Guin

Spike Lee

Ang Lee

Chang-Rae Lee

Kai-Fu Lee

Joe Lieberman

Maya Ying Lin

Tim Lincecum

Lucy Liu

Jennifer Lopez

Rachel Maddow

Nicolas Maduro

Wilma Mankiller

Michael Mann

Paul Martin, Jr

Ricky Martin

Norma Martinez-Rogers

Matisyahu Marissa Mayer

Thabo Mbeki

Cormac McCarthy

Angela Merkel

Mary Midgley

Bette Midler

Slobodan Milosevic

Norman Mineta

Narendra Modi

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Toni Morrison

Mohamed Morsi

Hosni Mubarak

Robert Mugabe

Bharati Mukherjee

Alice Munro

Haruki Murakami

Rupert Murdoch

Eddie Murphy

Pervez Musharraf

Ralph Nader

Thomas Nagel

Ray Nagin

Mira Nair

Hikaru Nakamura

Martina Navratilova

Ne-Yo Benjamin Netanyahu

Paul Newman

Joanna Newsom

Enrique Pena Nieto

Indra Nooyi

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Barack Obama

Michelle Obama

Ellen Ochoa

Sandra Day O'Connor

Viktor Orban

Suze Orman

Joel Osteen

Larry Page

Orhan Pamuk

Sarah Jessica Parker

Dolly Parton

Nancy Pelosi

Mike Pence

Kal Penn

David Petraeus

Alvin Plantinga

Ai-jen Poo

Natalie Portman

Colin Powell

John Prendergast

Sally J. Priesand

Prince Vladimir Putin

Muammar al-Qaddafi

William H. Rehnquist

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Joseph Ratzinger

Robert B. Reich

Janet Reno

Condoleezza Rice

Adrienne Rich. Publisher's Note

Introduction

Mahmoud Abbas

J.J. Abrams

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Martti Ahtisaari

Ai Weiwei

Akihito

Jessica Alba

Madeleine Albright

Michelle Alexander

Isabel Allende

Bashar al-Assad

Omar al-Bashir

Amerie

Mark Andreessen

Maya Angelou

Kofi Annan

Judd Apatow

Lance Armstrong

Molefi Kete Asante

Julian Assange

Margaret Atwood

Bai Ling

Steve Ballmer

Ban Ki-moon

Tyra Banks

Ehud Barak

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

Kathleen Battle

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Silvio Berlusconi

Ben Bernanke

Tim Berners-Lee

Halle Berry

Jeff Bezos

Joe Biden

Osama Bin Laden

Jack Black

Tony Blair

Wolf Blitzer

Michael Bloomberg

Judy Blume

Barry Bonds

Tom Brady

Paul Bremer

John Brennan

Steven Breyer

Sergey Brin

Kobe Bryant

George W. Bush

Laura Bush

Octavia E. Butler

David Cameron

Joseph Cao

Mariah Carey

Fidel Castro

Raul Castro

Stanley Cavell

Vinton Gray Cerf

Michael Chabon

Elaine L. Chao

Hugo Chavez

Julie Chen

Dick Cheney

Jacques Chirac

John Cho

Margaret Cho

Noam Chomsky

Deepak Chopra

Jean Chretien

Judy M. Chu

Steven Chu

Hillary Clinton

George Clooney

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Joel and Ethan Coen

J.M. Coetzee

Francis S. Collins

Patricia Hill Collins

Margarita Colmenares

Jeremy Corbyn

France Anne Cordova

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Stanley Crouch

Billy Crystal

Julie Dash

Larry David

Angela Davis. Richard Dawkins

Oscar De La Hoya

Ellen DeGeneres

Michael Dell

Daniel C. Dennett

Johnny Depp

Matthew Desmond

Junot Diaz

Chitra Divakaruni

Rita Dove

Adam Driver

Dinesh D'Souza

Tammy Duckworth

Ronald Dworkin

Barbara Ehrenreich

Michael Eisner

Mohamed ElBaradei

Rahm Emanuel

Eminem

Federico Faggin

Susan Faludi

Dianne Feinstein

America Ferrera

Don Figueroa

Carly Fiorina

Shulamith Firestone

Laurence Fishburne

Carrie Fisher

Barney Frank

Al Franken

Aretha Franklin

Jonathan Franzen

Morgan Freeman

Francis Fukuyama

Bill Gates

Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Robert Gates

Joachim Gauck

Mel Gibson

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nikki Giovanni

Malcolm Gladwell

Whoopi Goldberg

Alberto Gonzales

Jane Goodall

Al Gore

David Graeber

Temple Grandin

Alan Greenspan

Carol W. Greider

Ha Jin

Nikki Haley

Stephen Harper

Stephen Hawking

Mark Helprin

Maria Hinojosa

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Christopher Hitchens

Eric Holder

Francois Hollande

Bell Hooks

H. Robert Horvitz

Khaled Hosseini

Hu Jia

Hu Jintao

Vanessa Hudgens

Arianna Huffington

Chad Hugo

Saddam Hussein

Gwen Ifill

Janet Jackson

Michael Jackson

Jesse Jackson, Jr

Mae C. Jemison

Jiang Zemin

Jin Xing

Steve Jobs

Magic Johnson

Dwayne Johnson

Marion Jones

Norah Jones

Michio Kaku

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Megyn Kelly

Anthony Kennedy

Uhuru Kenyatta

Alan Keyes

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Salva Kiir Mayardit

Kim Jong-Il

Kim Jong-Un

Jim Yong Kim

Suji Kwock Kim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Gale Virtual Reference Library, viewed June 3, 2019).

ISBN:

9781682175903

1682175901

OCLC:

1020318864