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Summary: SUPERLATIVE !
Review: A truly exceptional, insightful, brilliantly written and presented commentary on the key figures of the last century. Perhaps slightly biased towards Uncle Sam, but still a book to treasure for yourself and your children (to be!)
Rating: 
Summary: Biased
Review: I would like to attract your attention to the online polls that Time Magazine did before issuing this book. In these polls, in two different categories (one of them is Leaders & Revolutionaries), the voters chose Ataturk who is not only the founder of Turkish Republic but also an idol for all countries that had been living as colonies of industrialized countries. Another inconsistency about this mistake is that Time Magazine declared that The Foundation of Turkish Republic (October 23, 1923) is one of the biggest days of "80 Days that changed the world" (another collector's edition book). They selected this event as that much important but did not add it in this book. It is incomprehensible.
Rating:
Summary: Biased
Review: I would like to attract your attention to the online polls that Time Magazine did before issuing this book. In these polls, in two different categories (one of them is Leaders & Revolutionaries), the voters chose Ataturk who is not only the founder of Turkish Republic but also an idol for all countries that had been living as colonies of industrialized countries. Another inconsistency about this mistake is that Time Magazine declared that The Foundation of Turkish Republic (October 23, 1923) is one of the biggest days of "80 Days that changed the world" (another collector's edition book). They selected this event as that much important but did not add it in this book. It is incomprehensible.
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Summary: Not Very Enlightening
Review: When I first obtained this book, I expected more and was, to say the least, disappointed on many levels. Perhaps a bit more inclusion, perhaps a bit more insight, and perhaps a bit more reasoning as to why these people are "The Most Influential People of the 20th Century would have made this a better book because, in some ways, the book is semi-informative. Still, the book, with its inclusion of the mainstream "notables" that don't have the power to bring controversy to the table, leaves many figures in the shadows that should have been, could have been, and perhaps were in many - except the Time Book's staff - people's minds, the most influential people in the 20th century.
The List, in case you're a fan and want to read some 3-4 page blurbs on these individuals, is broken into two categories:
(1) Leaders and Revolutionaries: Theodore Roosevelt, Lenin, Margaret Sanger, F.D. Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, E. Roosevelt, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, M. L. K. , Pope J.P. II, M. Thatcher, Ayatollah Puhollah Khomeini, R. Reagan, Lee Walesa, Gorbachev, N. Mandela, and The Unknown Rebel. (2) Artists and Entertainers: Picasso, Corbusier, Graham, Chanel, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, C. Chaplin, Spielberg, M. Brando, Igor Stravinsky, L. Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Lucille Ball, Jim Henson, Oprah, and Bart Simpson. As you can tell, this list is a bit lacking and, in many cases, a few pages doesn't do the person it covers justice. Still, if you like little snippets that candycoat the past by glossing over the transgressions of the those in favor and casting stones at those who aren't, then you may, somehow, find this book more enlightening than I did.
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