The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.
The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
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G 2018/3066
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English
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Physical content
xxviii, 372 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction does history make statesmen or do statesmen make history? -- Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening, 1971-1972 -- Mikhail Gorbachev : ending the Cold War, 1985-1991 -- Wilson and FDR : failure of the League of Nations, birth of the United Nations -- UN Secretary-General...
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
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First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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"Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promot...
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The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.
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Leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/3066
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0393249565 hardcover
9780393249569 hardcover
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327.1720922
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991024168397102626