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Biographies of mostly western political and cultural, leaders.  Ho Chi Minh,
Haile Selassie, Anwar Sadat and Zhou Enlai are some of the very few
non-western names.
- Louis Armstrong
- Fred Astaire
- W.H.Auden
- George Balanchine
- Karl Barth
- David Ben-Gurian
- Pablo Casals
- Coco Chanel
- Charles Chaplin
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Le Corbusier
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Charles de Gaulle
- Walt Disney
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- T.S. Eliot
- Duke Ellington
- Felix Frankfurter
- Benny Goodman
- Haile Selassie
- Ho Chi Minh
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Edward Hopper
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Helen Keller
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John Lennon
- John L. Lewis
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- Joe Louis
- Mao Zedong
- Groucho Marx
- Golda Meir
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackie Robinson
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Bertrand Russell
- Anwar el-Sadat
- Margaret Sanger
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Igor Stravinsky
- Josip Broz Tito
- Harry S. Truman
- Earl Warren
- Tennessee Williams
- Zhou Enlai