TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mandelbaum,Michael
TI  - Titans of the twentieth century: how they made history and the history they made
SN  - 9780197782477
AV  - D412.6 .M27 2024
PY  - 2024///]
KW  - Heads of state
KW  - Biography
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - World politics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Thomas Woodrow Wilson -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin (Ulyanov) -- Adolf Hitler -- Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- David Ben-Gurion (Gruen) -- Mao Zedong
N2  - "The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth century offered political leaders enormous scope for changing the world. This book consists of essays about eight who, for better and for worse, did just that. Woodrow Wilson had a vision for a cooperative world order that failed after the First World War but gained in influence after the Second. Vladimir Ilich Lenin founded the totalitarian communist political system that controlled a large part of the planet for much of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler started history's worst war and presided over history's worst atrocity, the Holocaust. Winston Churchill provided inspiring leadership to Great Britain, which made it possible to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II"--
ER  -