The Getty Black Book

Several years ago I watched a program on A&E's Biography program, the 100 Most Influential People of the Millennium. Amongst the countdown were some of my heroes: Vasco de Gama, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Hobbes, Benjamin Franklin, Pablo Picasso, F.D. Roosevelt, Marco Polo, Machiavelli, Bill Gates, Vladimir Lenin, Rousseau, Mozart, Copernicus, Galileo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, and at the number one spot was the phenomenal -- Johannes Gutenberg, for inventing the moveable printin...