Icons Of The Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Cady, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879518936 ISBN 13: 9780879518936

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books, 2003

Synopsis

Our century has been marked by extraordinary cultural, political, and technologiacal change: the winds of war, the starbursts of celebrity, the poltergeists of politics, the bits of bytes. The dynamic driving forces of this change are two hundred astounding men and women who have most shaped the last one hundred years. "Icons of the Twentieth Century" is a permanent record of their -- and our -- time.

About this title

From the Author:

How ICONS came to be
The book is a concept, really, more than a statement that there are only these 200 people who have greatly influenced the twentieth century. I think that everyone loves lists, especially definitive lists. They’re fun and challenging and it's interesting to compare opinions. In the case of ICONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, the list is also controversial. Originally I was going to include 100 icons, but there were just too many fabulous men and women to stop there.

Soon after I came up with the idea for the book, I realized that no one would care who I thought were the 200 most important people of the last 100 years. So I decided to create a multi-national board of advisors composed of distinguished individuals from all over the world that would do the actual selection. I combed the newspapers, special editions of magazines, and award lists and came up with a few thousand people who were respected experts in their various fields--artists, curators, writers, directors, architects, politicians, etc. My goal was a diversified board whose members reflected a variety of nationalities and cultures as well as ages so that icons from the full historical spectrum of the century would be chosen.

How did the board choose the icons? The two most important criteria were achievement and recognizability. What impact that person had on the century and that the person’s face is well known.

For those of you who are curious, here are the top 10 icons selected by the board. Adolph Hitler was number one. World War II was the defining event of the century and Hitler the evil genius behind it-and behind the inconceivable carnage that resulted from it. Behind the Furher, in no particular order, was Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Chairman Mao, Mother Teresa, Fidel Castro, Muhammad Ali, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, President John Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein.

About the Author:

Barbara Cady, writer, editor, and publisher, began her career in journalism as a book reviewer for The Los Angeles Times. Among her credits are the launches of several publications, including the collector magazine Almanac. She hosted a daily radio talk show in Los Angeles on the Pacifica Network, and served as President of the Western Publications Association as well. She lives in Philadelphia.

Naudet is an internationally renowned photo editor

Naudet is an internationally renowned photo editor

About this edition

• Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0879518936
• ISBN 13: 9780879518936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432