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The Lost Peace : Leadership In A Time Of Horror And Hope, 1945 1953
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 DescriptionA reinterpretation of the postwar years. It examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe - Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Charles De Gaulle, and Harry S Truman - to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. Author descriptionRobert Dallek is the author of Nixon and Kissinger and An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, among other books. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians, for which he served as president in 2004-2005. He lives in Washington, D.C. |
