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The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Past 100 Years
Peter Pugh
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Paperback. The 50 Britons who have had most impact on today's world Num Pages: 288 pages, 50. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BK; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the 50 most influential British men and women of the modern world - for good or ill.
Pugh discusses and ranks the influence of scientists and inventors such as Francis Crick, John Logie Baird and Alan Turing; lawmakers and leaders like prime ministers Attlee, Churchill and Thatcher; entrepreneurs including James Dyson, Mary Quant and Terence Conran; and cultural icons like J.K. Rowling, who, in the words of Lisa Simpson no less, 'turned a generation of kids onto reading'.
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Product Details
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785780349
SKU
V9781785780349
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Peter Pugh
Peter Pugh is a businessperson and company historian who has written more than 50 company histories on businesses from Rolls-Royce to Iceland. He is also the author of Introducing Thatcherism and Introducing Keynes, and lives by the sea in north Norfolk, and in Cambridge.
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A light-hearted whizz through the last century in snapshots of the nation's high minds and leading characters.
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