New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Life, 2003

160 p. : il. ; 28 cm.

Tomado de la introduction: "One hundred years is a long time. Not, perhaps, on a tectonic scale, but in ordinary human terms, it is longer than all but a very few of us will live. This volume touches on many of the most important developments that took place during the last 100 years. Sometimes an event's significance was realized only gradually. More often the effect was immediate. It will be noted that recent years are less well represented than earlier ones; a few decades from now that disparity may be corrected. It often takes time to grasp what is truly important. What the 100 have in common is that each reconfigured the fabric of our society in a particular way. "In a shocking development today " is heard nearly every evening on news broadcasts, although the "shocking development" is often not even the lead item, just another in a half-hour show. Books, news- papers, magazines and the Internet combine for an incessant avalanche of stories about the latest sizzling topics, the vast majority of which will be tepid in a matter of days-and forgotten before the year is out. A quick scan of the pages of this book will reveal people, places and things that will likely continue to resonate for generations to come."

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