Personality and Power:
Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
Jay Elews.
What brings strong personalities to power?’ asks the historian Ian Kershaw. ‘And what promotes or limits their use of that power?’ Those two questions are at the centre of this book, a study of some of the 20th century’s most important leaders. The result is partly an analysis of character, but also an attempt to gauge how much history’s main players directed world events, and how much events directed them...
Have a read and see if you want to borrow my copy (Kershaw is particularly rude about Lenin).
Mr Kydd.
