History's People: Personalities And The Past (cbc Massey Lectures)
by Margaret Macmillan /
2015 / English / Kindle, EPUB
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InHistory’s People
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. Some have changed the course of history and
even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable
for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. 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. She also
notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes,
as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon
and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who
stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own
societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and
adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe
who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own
societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the
first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust
survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to
life.
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. Some have changed the course of history and
even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable
for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. 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. She also
notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes,
as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon
and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who
stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own
societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and
adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe
who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own
societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the
first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust
survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to
life.