The author shows that the desire to be famous is far from being just a twentieth-century obsession, tracing the history of fame and its pursuit from Alexander the Great to the idolatry of media figures today.
- ISBN10 0195040031
- ISBN13 9780195040036
- Publish Date 11 September 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 662
- Language English