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Edward Abbey

Mortimer Jerome Adler

MDCarchives
Horace M. Albright

Courtesy U.S. National Park Service
Peter Alden

photo by Alison Bell
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Craig W. Allin

Cornell College
Stephen E. Ambrose

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Bruce E. Babbitt

U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Christopher P. Baker

Russell Baker

David P. Barash

Connie C. Barlow

Courtesy of David Sunfellow Photography
William Bartram

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Edward Latimer Beach

U.S. Navy
Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

Stephen Vincent Benét

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lerone Bennett

John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Henri Bergson

Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Sidney Blumenthal

Photo by Larry D. Moore (2006) (Wikimedia Commons)
David Bodanis

Richard Nelson Bolles

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Arnaud De Borchgrave

Ray Bradbury

Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
H. W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Stewart Brand

Richard Brautigan

Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dale Brown

Dee Alexander Brown

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown (Politican & Author of "Dialogues") ~
Photo by Alan Light, 1978 (Cropped/Flickr)
Martin Buber

Art Buchwald

William F. Buckley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Thomas Bulfinch

Leo F. Buscaglia

MDCarchives
George Bush

James F. Byrnes

Wikipedia (Library of Congress, from U.S. Office of War Information)
William H. Calvin

Fritjof Capra

Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
JOHN LE CARRE

Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Howard Carter

Bernal DÃaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Fidel Castro

Bruce Catton

Ann Charters

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Tom Clancy

Arthur Charles Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
David Cohen

Gage Skidmore
Barry Commoner

Liz Baylen
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
Richard Henry Dana

Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Richard Dawkins

Ronald V. Dellums

Oil on canvas, Andre White, 1997, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives.
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Don G. Despain

USGS photo
Rick Detorie

Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Dickey

James Dickey

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Charles Van Doren

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Frederick Douglass

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Will Durant

Wayne W. Dyer

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
David Edmonds

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Jacques Ehrmann

Photo by Jacques Ehrmann
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
Ralph Ellison

Daniel Ellsberg

Jacques Ellul

used by permission ©AIJE
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Amitai Etzioni

Photo © Esther Dyson
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
Daniel A. Farber

Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
John Feinstein

Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Vardis Fisher

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ian Fleming

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard A. Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Michel Foucault

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
J. William Fulbright

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Government Photo)
R. Buckminster Fuller

Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles de Gaulle

Official photograph of de Gaulle, by Jean-Marie Marcel.
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Golding

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Barry M. Goldwater

Congressional Portrait
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Maksim Gorky

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Graham Greene

Ursula K. Le Guin

David Halberstam

H. R. Haldeman

Photo by Oliver F. Atkins, White House Photographer (Wikimedia Commons)
Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Alexander Hamilton

ThÃch Nh&ˆaacute;t Hòanh

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harpers Magazine

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson, on left. Guy MacPherson, 2007.
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Napoleon Hill

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)
Joan Hoff

Montana State University
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
David A. Hollinger

University of California Berkeley
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
J. Edgar Hoover

fbi.gov
Barney Hoskyns

Francis Clark Howell

Courtesy of the Howell Family
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Maulana Jalˆal al-Dˆin Rˆumˆi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
Peter Jennings

Cropped from a photo of Jennings interviewing Eric Bost, Undersecretary of Agriculture (2002).
Lyndon B. Johnson

from Wikipedia
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Lloyd Kahn

Ryszard Kapuściński

wikimedia commons
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Ken Kesey

Martin Luther King, Jr

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Ross King

Rudyard Kipling

Henry Kissinger

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Joseph Wood Krutch

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-®dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Brian Lamb

Brain Lamb (left) being congratulated at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Edward William Lane

from the collection of Catherine Lane Poole Dupre
William L. Langer

Harvard Square Library
Lewis H. Lapham

Emanuel Lasker

T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von

Vladimir Il§ich Lenin

Meriwether Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sinclair Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Walter Lippmann

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21696)
(cropped)
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Robert Ludlum

Archibald MacLeish

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
T. R. Malthus

Nelson Mandela

Herbert Marcuse

Walter De la Mare

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lynn Margulis

Credit: Javier Pedreira, 2005, La Coruña, Spain
George C. Marshall

George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959)
1946 photograph
Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
André Maurois

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Phillip C. McGraw

William Holmes McGuffey

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
H. L. Mencken

James A. Michener

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kate Millett

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSamuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Bill D. Moyers

Edward R. Murrow

Ralph Nader

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Division of National Park Service

El Capitan and Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California
pdphoto.orgSir Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Richard M. Nixon

Official U.S. Presidential Portrait (National Archives & Recores)
Robert Nozick

David Olive

Eugene O'Neill

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Thomas J. Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Kevin P. Phillips

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plato; Translated By B. Jowett

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Marco Polo

Karl R. Popper

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3862)
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupˆada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Heather Anne Pringle

Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Diane Ravitch

© 2003 Lisa Wolfe
Piers Paul Read

Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Jeremy Rifkin

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-5511)
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
J. K. Rowling

Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anwar Sadat

U.S. Air Force (Andrews AFB), Wikimedia Commons
Carl Sagan

Andreˆi Sakharov

J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Jr. Arthur M. Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
Stephen Henry Schneider

Flickr user Joi
E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Walter Scott, Sir

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Vincent Sheean

Claude Simon

William E. Simon

Painting by Everett Raymond Kinstler
George Gaylord Simpson

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Rick Smolan

Robert Scoble
National Geographic Society

Sophocles

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Laurence Sterne

Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
I. F. Stone

Kzitelman
Lewis Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Freeman Tilden

Courtesy of U.S. National Park Service
Time Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John G. Tower

DoD photo by PH1 Harold Gerwien, Oct. 27, 1987 (DN-ST-88-05791)
Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Margaret Truman

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
Frederick Jackson Turner

Wikipedia
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Stewart L. Udall

U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Peter Ustinov

Various

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Voltaire

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
H. G. Wells

Hermann Weyl

Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Tennessee Williams

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Carlos. Williams

Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Tom Wolfe

Bob Woodward

Frank Zappa

Helge Øverås, January 16th 1977
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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