Name: Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
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Author: Ian Kershaw
ISBN: 9781594203459

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Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ian Kershaw

Publisher

Penguin Press

Language

English

Pages

512

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.7 x 16.4 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.80 kg.

ISBN13

9781594203459

Synopsis "Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe "

One of New York Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall How far can a single leader alter the course of history? From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age's uniquely devastating despots--and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were reshaped and wars were fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities somehow enabled them to do whatever they wished, regardless of the consequences for others. Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether those operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders, and the times in which they lived, that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles--from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev and Thatcher to Kohl)--Kershaw uses his exceptional skills as an iconic historian to explore how strikingly different figures wielded power.

Ian Kershaw

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Es catedrático de Historia Moderna en la Universidad de Sheffield y una de las máximas autoridades del mundo en Hitler. Por sus servicios a la historia se le otorgó la condecoración alemana de la Cruz Federal del Mérito 1994 y fue nombrado caballero en 2002; en 2004 la Historical Association le otorgó la Medalla Norton Medlicott.

Fue asesor histórico de dos series de la BBC, la premiada The Nazis: A Warning from History y War of the Century. Es autor de Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation y del bestseller Hitler, la biografía monumental del dictador.

Hitler 1889-1936 fue seleccionado para el Premio de Biografía Whitbread 1998 y el primer Premio Samuel Johnson de Ensayo. Hitler 1936-1945 recibió el Premio Literario Wolfson de Historia, el Premio Bruno Kreisky de Austria para el Libro Político del Año, se le concedió conjuntamente el premio inaugural de la Academia Británica y fue seleccionado para el Premio de Biografía Whitbread 2000.

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