The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century
The Definitive Compendium of Astonishing Events, Amazing People, and Strange-But-True Facts
1995
First Published
4.09
Average Rating
835
Number of Pages
An entertaining, colorful overview of the past century offers believe-it-or-not stories, unusual facts, dubious achievements, and other offbeat trivia, presented in more than seven hundred short entries. 50,000 first printing.
Avg Rating
4.09
Number of Ratings
86
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Author
David Wallechinsky
Author · 15 books
David Wallechinsky is an American populist historian and television commentator, the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the founder and editor-in-chief of AllGov.com.
