The TwentiethCentury An Almanac Author:Robert H. Ferrell Achievements, atrocities, political changes, significant births and deaths - all mingle on the pages in the haphazard ways of history, while developments in the arts, science, technology, and the social sciences are summarized at the end of each year's chronology... — Photographs and capsule biographies make the book as engaging as its arrang... more »emen and index make it all accessible.« less