This is a guide to the portraits or snapshots of some 6,000 people who were newsworthy in the recent past, including politicians and entertainers, the good and the bad, the famous and the notorious, winners and losers, criminals and victims. The sources of these portraits are four popular magazines: Newsweek, People Weekly, Time, and U.S. News and World Report. If a pictured person was also the subject of an illustrated article in Current Biography, this fact is mentioned. The index can be used simply to find pictures of persons, some well-known, others elusive. One can also gain insight into the popularity, importance, or notoriety of a person by observing the number of occurrences.
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...useful for library patrons as a place to find textual information about some relatively obscure person as well as to obtain a picture or likeness of that person. * American Reference Books Annual * ...unique. * Booklist * ...a valuable resource. * The Photograph Collector *
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Höhe: 219 mm
Breite: 164 mm
Dicke: 32 mm
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978-0-8108-2530-7 (9780810825307)
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Herbert H. Hoffman is cataloguer, reference librarian, and teacher at Rancho Santiago College in Santa Ana, CA. He has contributed to a number of professional journals and is the author of several books, including Latin American Play Index (2 vols., Scarecrow, 1983-84), Hoffman's Index to Poetry (Scarecrow, 1985), and Recorded Plays: Indexes to Dramatists, Plays, and Actors (1985).
