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Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Door Ian Kershaw

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#321045-XA7
Titel	Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
Auteur	Kershaw, Ian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Penguin Press
Jaar van uitgave	2022
ISBN10	1594203458
ISBN13	9781594203459
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original silver lettered half cloth, dust jacket, illustration sin b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	One of New York Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall How far can a single leader alter the course of history? From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age? s uniquely devastating despots? and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were reshaped and wars were fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities somehow enabled them to do whatever they w... (Lees verder)ished, regardless of the consequences for others. Ian Kershaw? s new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether those operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders, and the times in which they lived, that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles? from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev and Thatcher to Kohl)? Kershaw uses his exceptional skills as an iconic historian to explore how strikingly different figures wielded power.
Pagina's	492
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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