They Made History (Giant Books)

All too often we only hear the official accounts of the most public of events that occurred in the lives of great personalities. Here is a unique collection of stories revealing some of the most fascinating & bizarre facts about the people themselves. The pictures that emerge are of the real people & the actual events of their lives. They include John Jacob Astor, John Sebastian Bach, Isaac D Israeli, Charles Darwin, Catherine De Medici, Daniel Defoe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ferdinand Magellan, Karl Marx, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Paine, St. Catherine of Siena, Robert Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornelius Vanderbilt, & James Whistler.