They Changed Everything: the True Stories of 76 People Who Built, Broke, and Rebuilt World

History class lied to you. Not with false facts - with boring ones. It gave you the dates and left out the drama. It gave you the names and left out the cost. It told you what happened and forgot to mention that the people involved were terrified, broke, in love, making it up as they went, or completely wrong about what they were doing. This book fixes that. They Changed Everything tells the real stories of 76 people who shaped the world you live in - from the banker who built a financial empire inside a locked ghetto, to the man who saved the world from nuclear war and was reprimanded for his paperwork, to the 65-year-old with $105 who slept in his car and built the second-largest fast food chain on earth. You'll find the builders and the destroyers. The heroes and the complicated ones. The famous faces and the people nobody talks about - the ones who did the most important things in the quietest rooms. Each story gives you the real before, the real moment, the real cost - and the twist you didn't see coming. History isn't boring. They just forgot to tell you the good parts. 76 lives. 11 chapters. One book. Volume 2 coming soon.