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Personality and Power

Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

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Personality and Power

Yazan: Ian Kershaw
Seslendiren: Matt Bates
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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

 20th Century Career Success Europe Modern Political Science Politics & Government World Savaş Winston Churchill Sosyalizm Savaşlar Arası Dönem
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Illuminating ... an insightful series of essays about 12 exceptional leaders who stood at the centre of Europe's 20th century. (Philip Stephens)
Few historians are better qualified to answer these questions than Ian Kershaw ... As always, he proves a splendid miniaturist, expertly sketching personalities and philosophies in a few coolly judged lines ... If Kershaw's book has a contemporary lesson, it is that societies are probably happiest and healthiest when leaders matter least. (Dominic Sandbrook)
Sir Ian Kershaw, the great (in both senses) biographer of Adolf Hitler, makes an important contribution to this debate ... persuasive and nuanced pen-portraits ... well-researched, well-written and thought-provoking. (Andrew Roberts)
Lucid portraits of the leaders who shaped Europe's 20th century ... There is much to be admired in Kershaw's cogent and astute analysis. (Orlando Figes)
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it was well rounded good to listen to and covered parts of stories i was too young to remember or pay attention to at the time.

thinking of the mistakes of the past and why we dont listen to history, at our own risk.

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A fascinating account of the way in which personalities shaped and we're shaped by events.

The 20th Century's Shapers

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of these twelve personalities whose regimes made significant impact on recent history.
Well researched and told.

Most interesting narrative

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Very disappointed , expected more from mr Kershaw in view of his previous works on history

Not liking it

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Was looking for a book covering the personality of power but this is just a series of short biographies of the lives not about how their personality led to there power. Very disappointed

Not as expected

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