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The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.

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The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.

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The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.

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Full title

The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Alternative title

Peace makers

Call Numbers

G 2018/3066

Record Identifier

74VKVoWyjQWd

MMS ID

991024168397102626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xxviii, 372 pages ; 25 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

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...

Publication information

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Edition

First edition.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

[2018]

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"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...

Alternative Titles

Full title

The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.

Portion of title

Leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2018/3066

Record Identifier

74VKVoWyjQWd

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVoWyjQWd

Other Identifiers

ISBN

0393249565 hardcover

9780393249569 hardcover

DDC

327.1720922

MMS ID

991024168397102626

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