Publisher’s Note...... vii Barry Bonds...... 84 Introduction...... ix Tom Brady...... 87 Paul Bremer...... 90 Mahmoud Abbas...... 1 John Brennan...... 91 J. J. Abrams...... 3 Steven Breyer...... 93 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...... 5 Sergey Brin...... 94 Martti Ahtisaari...... 8 Kobe Bryant...... 96 Ai Weiwei...... 9 George W. Bush...... 98 Akihito...... 11 Laura Bush...... 102 Jessica Alba...... 14 Octavia E. Butler...... 105 Madeleine Albright...... 15 Michelle Alexander ...... 20 David Cameron...... 107 Isabel Allende...... 22 Joseph Cao...... 109 Bashar al-Assad...... 24 Mariah Carey ...... 110 Omar al-Bashir...... 26 Fidel Castro...... 113 Amerie...... 27 Raúl Castro...... 117 Mark Andreessen...... 28 Stanley Cavell...... 119 Maya Angelou...... 31 Vinton Gray Cerf ...... 121 Kofi Annan...... 33 Michael Chabon...... 123 Judd Apatow...... 35 Elaine L. Chao ...... 125 Lance Armstrong ...... 37 Hugo Chávez...... 126 Molefi Kete Asante...... 39 Julie Chen ...... 129 Julian Assange...... 41 Dick Cheney...... 130 Margaret Atwood...... 43 Jacques Chirac...... 133 Bai Ling...... 46 John Cho ...... 135 Steve Ballmer...... 47 Margaret Cho ...... 136 Ban Ki-moon...... 49 Noam Chomsky...... 138 Tyra Banks...... 51 Deepak Chopra...... 141 Ehud Barak...... 53 Jean Chrétien...... 143 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi...... 55 Judy M. Chu ...... 146 Kathleen Battle ...... 58 Steven Chu...... 147 Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...... 59 Hillary Clinton...... 149 Silvio Berlusconi...... 61 George Clooney...... 150 Ben Bernanke...... 62 Ta-Nehisi Coates...... 152 Tim Berners-Lee ...... 64 Joel and Ethan Coen ...... 154 Halle Berry...... 66 J. M. Coetzee...... 156 Jeff Bezos...... 67 Francis S. Collins...... 158 Joe Biden...... 69 Patricia Hill Collins...... 161 Osama Bin Laden...... 72 Margarita Colmenares ...... 162 Jack Black...... 74 Jeremy Corbyn...... 163 Tony Blair ...... 76 France Anne Córdova ...... 165 Wolf Blitzer ...... 78 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ...... 167 Michael Bloomberg...... 80 Stanley Crouch...... 168 Judy Blume ...... 82 Billy Crystal...... 170 vii Complete Contents Great Lives from History: 2000–2017

Julie Dash...... 173 Mohamed ElBaradei...... 210 Larry David...... 174 Rahm Emanuel ...... 213 Angela Davis ...... 176 Eminem...... 215 Richard Dawkins...... 179 Oscar De La Hoya ...... 181 Federico Faggin ...... 218 Ellen DeGeneres...... 183 Susan Faludi...... 220 Michael Dell...... 185 Dianne Feinstein...... 222 Daniel C. Dennett...... 187 America Ferrera...... 223 Johnny Depp...... 190 Don Figueroa...... 225 Matthew Desmond...... 192 Carly Fiorina...... 226 Junot Díaz ...... 193 Shulamith Firestone...... 228 Chitra Divakaruni ...... 195 Laurence Fishburne...... 229 Rita Dove ...... 197 Carrie Fisher...... 231 Adam Driver...... 198 Barney Frank...... 233 Dinesh D’Souza...... 200 Al Franken...... 235 Tammy Duckworth ...... 202 Aretha Franklin...... 237 Ronald Dworkin...... 204 Jonathan Franzen...... 239 Morgan Freeman...... 241 Barbara Ehrenreich...... 207 Francis Fukuyama ...... 243 Michael Eisner...... 209 Volume 2 Bill Gates...... 247 H. Robert Horvitz...... 299 Henry Louis Gates, Jr...... 250 Khaled Hosseini...... 301 Robert Gates ...... 251 Hu Jia...... 302 Joachim Gauck...... 253 Hu Jintao...... 305 Mel Gibson...... 255 Vanessa Hudgens...... 307 Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...... 256 Arianna Huffington...... 309 Nikki Giovanni...... 258 Chad Hugo...... 312 Malcolm Gladwell...... 259 Saddam Hussein...... 313 Whoopi Goldberg...... 261 Alberto Gonzales...... 262 Gwen Ifill...... 316 Jane Goodall...... 264 Al Gore...... 266 Janet Jackson...... 318 David Graeber...... 268 Michael Jackson...... 320 Temple Grandin...... 271 Jesse Jackson, Jr...... 322 Alan Greenspan...... 272 Mae C. Jemison...... 324 Carol W. Greider...... 276 Jiang Zemin...... 325 Jin Xing...... 327 Ha Jin...... 279 Steve Jobs...... 329 Nikki Haley...... 281 Magic Johnson...... 330 Stephen Harper...... 282 Dwayne Johnson...... 333 Stephen Hawking...... 284 Marion Jones...... 335 Mark Helprin...... 288 Norah Jones...... 336 Maria Hinojosa...... 289 Ayaan Hirsi Ali...... 291 Michio Kaku...... 338 Christopher Hitchens...... 293 Jeffrey Katzenberg...... 341 Eric Holder...... 294 Megyn Kelly...... 342 François Hollande...... 296 Anthony Kennedy...... 344 Bell Hooks...... 298 Uhuru Kenyatta...... 345 viii Great Lives from History: 2000–2017 Complete Contents

Alan Keyes...... 348 Angela Merkel...... 417 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...... 349 Mary Midgley...... 419 Salva Kiir Mayardit...... 352 Bette Midler...... 421 Kim Jong-Il...... 353 Slobodan Milošević...... 423 Kim Jong-Un...... 355 Norman Mineta...... 425 Jim Yong Kim...... 357 Narendra Modi...... 427 Suji Kwock Kim...... 359 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed...... 429 Larry King...... 361 Toni Morrison...... 430 Barbara Kingsolver...... 363 Mohamed Morsi...... 431 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner...... 365 Hosni Mubarak...... 433 Naomi Klein...... 367 Robert Mugabe...... 436 Beyoncé Knowles...... 368 Bharati Mukherjee...... 438 Paul Krugman...... 370 Alice Munro...... 440 Haruki Murakami...... 442 Lady Gaga...... 372 Rupert Murdoch...... 444 Jhumpa Lahiri...... 373 Eddie Murphy...... 447 Sergey Lavrov...... 375 Pervez Musharraf...... 449 Ursula K. Le Guin...... 377 Spike Lee...... 379 Ralph Nader...... 452 Ang Lee...... 381 Thomas Nagel...... 454 Chang-Rae Lee...... 383 Ray Nagin...... 456 Kai-Fu Lee...... 385 Mira Nair...... 457 Joe Lieberman...... 386 Hikaru Nakamura...... 460 Maya Ying Lin...... 388 Martina Navratilova...... 461 Tim Lincecum...... 390 Ne-Yo...... 465 Lucy Liu...... 392 Benjamin Netanyahu...... 466 Jennifer Lopez...... 393 Paul Newman...... 469 Joanna Newsom...... 471 Rachel Maddow...... 396 Enrique Peña Nieto...... 473 Nicolás Maduro...... 398 Indra Nooyi...... 476 Wilma Mankiller...... 399 Eleanor Holmes Norton...... 477 Michael Mann...... 403 Paul Martin, Jr...... 405 Barack Obama...... 480 Ricky Martin...... 406 Michelle Obama...... 483 Norma Martinez-Rogers...... 407 Ellen Ochoa...... 484 Matisyahu...... 409 Sandra Day O’Connor...... 486 Marissa Mayer...... 410 Viktor Orbán...... 490 Thabo Mbeki...... 413 Suze Orman...... 491 Cormac McCarthy...... 414 Joel Osteen...... 493 Volume 3 Larry Page...... 495 Natalie Portman...... 516 Orhan Pamuk...... 497 Colin Powell...... 518 Sarah Jessica Parker...... 499 John Prendergast...... 521 Dolly Parton...... 501 Sally J. Priesand...... 523 Nancy Pelosi...... 504 Prince...... 525 Mike Pence...... 506 Vladimir Putin...... 526 Kal Penn...... 508 David Petraeus �� 510 Muammar al-Qaddafi...... 530 Alvin Plantinga...... 512 Ai-jen Poo...... 514 William H. Rehnquist...... 533 ix Complete Contents Great Lives from History: 2000–2017

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan...... 534 Dominique Strauss-Kahn...... 629 Joseph Ratzinger...... 537 Meryl Streep...... 630 Robert B. Reich...... 539 Bhaskar Sunkara...... 632 Janet Reno...... 541 Aaron Swartz...... 634 Condoleezza Rice...... 543 Adrienne Rich...... 546 Antonio Taguba...... 636 Bill Richardson...... 548 George Takei...... 638 Gerhard Richter...... 550 Amy Tan...... 640 Chris Rock...... 552 Terence Tao...... 642 Sally Ride...... 554 Clarence Thomas...... 643 Mitt Romney...... 557 Laurence Tribe...... 645 Philip Roth...... 560 Justin Trudeau...... 647 Hassan Rouhani...... 562 Donald Trump ...... 649 J.K. Rowling...... 565 Mike Tyson...... 652 Robert Rubin...... 566 Loung Ung...... 654 Donald Rumsfeld...... 567 Burt Rutan...... 569 J. Craig Venter...... 656 Alice Walker...... 660 Ken Salazar...... 571 David Foster Wallace...... 663 Sheryl Sandberg...... 573 Hines Ward...... 665 Bernie Sanders...... 575 Rick Warren...... 667 Adam Sandler...... 576 Denzel Washington...... 668 Nicolas Sarkozy...... 578 Alice Waters...... 670 George Saunders...... 580 Maxine Waters...... 672 Antonin Scalia...... 582 Matthew Weiner...... 673 Nicole Scherzinger...... 584 Cornel West...... 675 Arnold Schwarzenegger...... 585 Kanye West...... 677 Bobby Seale...... 587 Paul Weyrich...... 679 David Sedaris...... 589 Serena Williams...... 680 Ariel Sharon...... 590 Sunita Williams...... 682 Al Sharpton...... 592 August Wilson...... 684 Muzammil H. Siddiqi...... 595 William Julius Wilson...... 686 Alicia Silverstone...... 597 Oprah Winfrey...... 687 O. J. Simpson...... 598 Naomi Wolf...... 690 Ruth Simmons...... 600 Paul Wolfowitz...... 692 John Singleton...... 601 Steve Wozniak...... 694 Tavis Smiley...... 602 Patti Smith...... 604 Gene Luen Yang...... 697 Will Smith...... 606 Viktor Yanukovych...... 699 Edward Snowden...... 607 Janet Yellen...... 700 Susan Sontag...... 609 Ada E. Yonath...... 703 George Soros...... 611 John Yoo...... 705 Sonia Sotomayor...... 614 Malala Yousafzai...... 707 David Souter...... 616 Eliot Spitzer...... 617 Fareed Zakaria...... 709 Howard Stern...... 619 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...... 710 John Paul Stevens...... 621 Slavoj Žižek...... 712 Sufjan Stevens...... 622 Mark Zuckerberg...... 714 Jon Stewart...... 624 Joseph E. Stiglitz...... 625 Categories...... 719 Jens Stoltenberg...... 627 Index...... 725 x