History's People: Personalities and the Past MacMillan Margaret Paperback
History's People: Personalities and the Past MacMillan Margaret Paperback Part of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn History's People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her…
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History's People: Personalities and the Past MacMillan Margaret Paperback
Part of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn History's People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times.
She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who
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