EDITORIAL REVIEWS
The 100 greatest what? Why, the 100 greatest speeches, news stories, personalities, scandals and sports moments of the 20th and 21st centuries, all compiled in a 5-CD set that brings history home like no collection has done before! Just to list some of the tracks is to give a timeline of modern history-for speeches, you get Churchill's "Finest Hour," FDR's "Day of Infamy," Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" and much more. News stories include 3-Mile Island, Little Rock school integration, John Lennon's death, Pearl Harbor and more. Among the personalities profiled are Amelia Earhart, Clarence Darrow, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Lindbergh, Helen Keller, James Dean, Walt Disney and many others, while tops among the 100 greatest scandals are Alger Hiss, Clinton/Lewinsky, Enron, My Lai, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Watergate break-in and other tangled affairs. And sports fans will revel in Ali-Foreman, Fischer-Spassky, Hank Aaron's 715th, U.S. Hockey's 1980 Olympic triumph, Secretariat and more. 500 clips that record how our lives changed!