Personality and Power Personality and Power

Personality and Power

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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 re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished.

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 they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles (Churchill, de Gaulle, Adenauer, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl) Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.

© Ian Kershaw 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

GENERE
Storia
NARRATO DA
MB
Matt Bates
LINGUA
EN
Inglese
DURATA
17:25
h min
PUBBLICATO
2022
29 settembre
EDITORE
Penguin Books Ltd
DIMENSIONE
1,1
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