NAMES IN THE NEWS : 2 Summit Stars Are Not No. 1
CHICAGO — Presidents George Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev are dominating the news, but neither made the list of the most requested biographies developed by Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Instant Research Service.
The top honor for the first four months of 1990 went to the late President John F. Kennedy, who also topped the list in 1989.
Other key figures on the new list, released Sunday, include Sigmund Freud, Michelangelo, Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Joan of Arc and Napoleon.
Neither Bush nor Gorbachev ranked among the top 15, but they were in good company.
Jesus and Einstein, among the top requested profiles for 1989, also dropped from the top. Others falling from the list included Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Nostradamus, Benjamin Franklin, John Maynard Keynes, Winston Churchill and Charles Lindbergh.
Instant Research Service provides an assortment of heavily researched topics spanning a list of 10,000 reader-ready titles.
The new top 15, in order of preference: Kennedy, Freud, Michelangelo, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Thomas Edison, Adolph Hitler, King, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Ghandi, Nelson R. Mandela, Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Josef Stalin and Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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