REMARKABLE LIVES: Leaders Who Changed History

✍ Scribed by Dk

• Publisher: DK Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most transformational and influential leaders in politics, business, religion, humanitarianism, and the military with this innovative and boldly graphic book.

Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated,Remarkable Lives: Leadersprofiles leaders from all walks of life: kings, queens, and political leaders; military leaders; religious icons and revolutionaries; business leaders, and sports captains.

Combining accessible text with specially commissioned illustrated portraits in a range of bold styles, photographs, infographics, and timelines, entries explore the lives and achievements of each individual in a fresh, visual way.

Covering political masterminds and military geniuses such as Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, great kings and queens like Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great, icons of religion and rebellion from Mohammad to the Dalai Lama to Mahatma Ghandi, and inspirational captains of sports and of industry,Remarkable Lives: Leadersexplores and explains the groundbreaking contributions made by these inspirational men and women throughout history, and their legacies.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
EMPIRES AND RELIGIONS | 2000 BCE–1500......Page 10
Moses......Page 12
Śiddhartha Gautama Buddha......Page 16
Alexander the Great......Page 20
Qin Shi Huang......Page 26
Cleopatra......Page 29
Jesus Christ......Page 30
Augustus Caesar......Page 34
Boudicca......Page 38
Septimia Zenobia......Page 39
Muhammad......Page 40
Charlemagne......Page 44
Eleanor of Aquitaine......Page 50
Saladin......Page 51
Genghis Khan......Page 52
Amir Timur......Page 58
Joan of Arc......Page 60
Guru Nanak......Page 66
Directory......Page 70
CONQUEST AND LIBERTY | 1500–1820......Page 72
Hernán Cortés......Page 74
Suleiman the Magnificent......Page 78
Elizabeth I......Page 82
Tokugawa Ieyasu......Page 88
Yi Sun–sin......Page 92
Louis XIV......Page 96
Frederick the Great......Page 100
George Washington......Page 102
Olaudah Equiano......Page 107
Maximilien Robespierre......Page 108
Napoleon Bonaparte......Page 112
Simón Bolívar......Page 118
Maria Quitéria......Page 122
Directory......Page 123
NATIONHOOD AND INDUSTRY | 1820–1920......Page 126
Giuseppe Garibaldi......Page 128
Karl Marx......Page 132
Sojourner Truth......Page 138
Abraham Lincoln......Page 140
Susan B. Anthony......Page 145
Otto von Bismarck......Page 146
Tasuŋka Witko “Crazy Horse”......Page 150
John D. Rockefeller......Page 152
Jamsetji Tata......Page 156
Swami Vivekananda......Page 157
Emmeline Pankhurst......Page 158
Henry Ford......Page 162
Coco Chanel......Page 166
Directory......Page 168
CONFLICT AND HOPE | 1920–1950......Page 170
Vladimir Lenin......Page 172
Michael Collins......Page 175
Adolf Hitler......Page 176
Joseph Stalin......Page 182
Kim Koo......Page 186
Mohandas Gandhi......Page 190
Bhagat Singh......Page 195
Haile Selassie......Page 196
Winston Churchill......Page 198
Douglas MacArthur......Page 204
Franklin Roosevelt......Page 205
Charles de Gaulle......Page 206
Eleanor Roosevelt......Page 210
David Ben–Gurion......Page 216
Mao Zedong......Page 220
Directory......Page 226
RIGHTS AND REVOLUTIONS | 1950–1980......Page 230
Kwame Nkrumah......Page 232
Fidel Castro......Page 236
John F. Kennedy......Page 240
Martin Luther King Jr.......Page 242
Akio Morita......Page 248
Nelson Mandela......Page 250
Malcolm X......Page 256
Yasser Arafat......Page 260
Li Ka–shing......Page 264
Directory......Page 268
FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITIES | 1980–Present......Page 270
Margaret Thatcher......Page 272
Bill Gates......Page 274
Mikhail Gorbachev......Page 280
Benazir Bhutto......Page 284
Lech Wałęsa......Page 286
Václav Havel......Page 287
Oprah Winfrey......Page 288
Anna Wintour......Page 291
Jack Ma......Page 292
Vladimir Putin......Page 296
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf......Page 300
Angela Merkel......Page 302
Barack Obama......Page 304
Malala Yousafzai......Page 308
Directory......Page 310
INDEX AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 314