The final book of the famous TV presenter, forming a kind of dilogy with the bestseller "Great women of the XX century". This is a collection of portraits of the greatest men of the century. Winston Churchill and F.D. Roosevelt, Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando, Ernest Hemingway and J.R.R. Tolkien, Albert Einstein and Sergei Korolev, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson…Their names are inscribed in history in gold. They decided the fate of the world, science and culture. They changed the borders of states and expanded the boundaries of the possible. They became the "calling card" of their era, most fully expressing the "spirit of the times". Remembering the XX century, our distant descendants will judge it by the heroes of this book.