Current Biography Yearbook 2008

An entire year of Current Biography-in one convenient clothbound volume! Each year in December, the monthly issues of Current Biography are updated and arranged alphabetically in a single hardcover volume that contains the entire year's biographies-about 220 in all. The annual volume also includes a complete cumulation of the year's obituaries, a cumulated index of articles and obituaries published in the current decade, and a classification of the subjects of articles by their professions. A sturdy library binding and acid-free paper make this investment last.

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