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History comes alive in HISTORICAL HEARTTHROBS, especially when reading it enables you to consider the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Josephine Baker as potential members of your dating pool. This fun collection ranks fifty swoon-worthy icons of the past according to their overall "crushability," based on their relative levels of heroism or villainy. Some are artists, some are scientists, and many are political or military leaders, but all have had a lasting impact on human life --- and a sizable impact on their admirers as well.

Excerpted from HISTORICAL HEARTTHROBS: 50 Timeless Crushes – from Cleopatra to Camus (ISBN: 9781936976102) with permission of the publisher, Zest Books. Text copyright (c) Kelly Murphy 2014