henry ford
Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle-class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the 20th century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many tec…more
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Julian The Apostate (roman Emperor)
Flavius Claudius Iulianus, known also as Julianus, Julian, Julian the Apostate or Julian the Philosopher (331/332 – 26 June 363), was Roman Emperor (Caesar, November 355 to February 360; Augustus, February 360 to June 363), last of the Constantinian dynas...
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to his presidency, he served as governor of Arkansas (1979–1981 and 1983–19...
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Mark Twain
An American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, ar...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. ...
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George W. Bush
George W. Bush is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States of America from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara and George H.W. Bush, he was born in New Have...
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Joseph Stalin
The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Under Stalins rule, the concept of "socialism in one country" became a central tenet of Soviet society. He established a highly centralized command economy, launching a perio...
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Osama Bin Laden
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying ex...
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Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure ...
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist, best known as the pilot of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.In March 1932 his infant son, Charles,...
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (b.1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of t...
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John Paul Ii
Blessed Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at 84 years and 319 days of age. His was the secon...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; 1890 – 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Fo...
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Greta Garbo (the Prince Of Beverly Hills)
A real person. 1905-1990. A Swedish-American film star of great popularity of the 1920s and 30s. She never married....
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Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, advocate and philanthropist, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Partys nominee for...
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Charles Iii Of The United Kingdom
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; b. 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the fourteen other Commonwealth realms....
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George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (1788 - 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byrons best-known works are the brief poems She ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husba...
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did g...
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Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguo...
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Truman Capote
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) an...
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Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904 - 1986) was an English novelist. His The Berlin Stories collection provided the inspiration for the play I Am a Camera (1951), the 1955 film I Am a Camera (both starring Julie Harris), the Broadway musical Caba...
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Howard Austen
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both French and English....
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Paul Bowles
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue mag...
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929 - 1994), was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later ...
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Jimmie Trimble
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Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs. Hi...
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Allan Bloom
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Saddam Hussein
Sadam Hussein was an Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War; born in 1937, deposed in 2003 after the US-led invasion of Iraq, executed in 2006 after conviction for crimes against humanity....
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Ralph Ellison
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Thomas Gore
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Fred Kaplan
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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, intellectual, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels.Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or trave...
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Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss was a 20th century German-American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University...
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Diana Spencer Princess Of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances, née Spencer, 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. Her wedding to the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 was held at S...
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Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under president Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bu...
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the Progressive Movement, his model of masculi...
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Federico Fellini
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Shelby Foote
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John Dewey
An American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the fathers of func...
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles, best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as hi...
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Johnny Carson
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Rudolf Nureyev
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Elia Kazan
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Princess Margaret Countess Of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI GCVO GCStJ (Margaret Rose; 1930 - 2002), was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.Margaret was often viewed as a controversial member of the royal ...
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Michel De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its mer...
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Barbra Streisand
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American pre...
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.Although Ford did not invent...
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Adolf Hitler
An Austrian-born German politician. Born 1889, died 1945. The leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As effectively the dictator of Nazi Germany, Hitler was at th...
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the B...
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz: August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cub...
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lif...
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801 - 1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Contin...
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John F. Kennedy
The 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963. At 43 years of age, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the b...
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Robert F. Bobby Kennedy
An American politician, who served as a United States Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He was previously the 64th U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, serving under his older brother, President John F. Kennedy and his su...
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev[a] (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the countrys Council of Ministers from 19...
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Julius Caesar (roman Emperor)
Gaius Julius Caesar (/ˈsiːzər/, SEE-zər; Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈkae̯sar]; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his politic...
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, pre...