Biography Index: Retrospective: 1946-1983 features

• Entries on individuals that reflect the perspective of the time when they were written.
• More than 627,000 article and book citations.
• Indexing of interviews and profiles of history makers, as well as obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenilia, book reviews, bibliographies, and exhibition reviews.
• Intuitive, fast, precise searching, offering quick and accurate access to a host of biographical material.
• Wilson-quality indexing—done by in-house professionals—of biographical materials from an international range of thousands of periodicals and an average of more than 2,000 English-language books a year.
• Uniform name authority control, making it easy to find an individual from any period of history despite possible name variants.
• Subject-specific thesaurus developed specifically for this database, ensuring the most precise searching.
• Coverage of asked-about public figures, including writers, artists, statesmen, sports figures, politicians, religious leaders, scientists, educators, military leaders, teachers, actors, business people, and more.

Thanks to the versatility of the WilsonWeb system, you can seamlessly search Biography Index Retrospective on its own, or in combination with any of these trusted biographical resources for the fullest possible answer to your query:

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