Best. Brains. Ever.: History's 64 Greatest Geeks, and How they Shaped our World by: Chas Newkey-Burden
Non-fiction: Biography, History, 144 pages
Each entry has a retro gaming picture of the person, what they are known for, and a short biography of them. Besides highlighting some people that one might not otherwise know about, each entry has info on the level of a middle school report. This can result in a fact or two that one didn't already know about people that they knew about, or getting the half truths that one learned in school and then found was false later. (Like how it had both Tesla and Edison in a book and suggested that Edison actually invented all that he got credited for, and didn't get into what a jerk Edison was to Tesla. Or how it did the tired story that Galileo was persecuted by the Church for doing science, AFTER talking about Copernicus, the person who had Galileo's idea before him, and was a member of the clergy.)
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