Download or read book The Hutchinson Encyclopedia Of Modern Political Biography written by Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities John Hutchinson and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles elected politicians and activists, trade unionists and spies, human rights campaigners and dictators, and pioneers of women's rights, in some 2,000 biographical entries. Entries detail the lives and achievements of men and women who have been instrumental in shaping political events and opinion around the world. Some 90 figures have their own feature-length biographies that assess their political significance in greater depth. Global and topical coverage is supplemented by quotations by or about political figures. Includes tables of leaders of many countries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.