The Lost Peace: Leadership from 1945-1953
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, historian Robert Dallek examines what drove leaders around the globe—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman—to rely on traditional power politics, and points out the lessons we can draw from their mistakes. Robert Dallek is a historian specializing in U.S. presidents and was a history professor at Boston University.
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