Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-242) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Raymond Poincaré /John Keiger -- David Lloyd George : 'an infernally clever chap ... ' / Sally Marks -- The view from the Kremlin : Soviet assumptions about the capitalist world in the 1920s and 1930s / Christopher Read -- One mind at Locarno? Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann / Jonathan Wright and Julian Wright -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk / Clive Foss -- Maps, minds, and visions : Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and China's place in the world / Rana Mitter -- Hamaguchi Osachi (1870-1931) / Eri Hotta -- Edvard Beneš / Richard Crampton -- Mussolini : Il Duce / Alan Cassels -- Hitler / Neil Gregor -- The maps on Churchill's mind / Geoffrey Best -- Franklin D. Roosevelt / Steven Casey.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In this book, thirteen leading historians address questions. They look at the underlying political, cultural and social environments in which various leaders developed their world views and rose to influence. They explore the extent to which these leaders' beliefs influenced their actions once in power. And they reassess some of the key questions of the period, from the familiar distinction between status quo, revisionist and revolutionary figures to the deeper clashes between liberal internationalism and its challengers, especially Marxism on the left and Hitler's brutal form of imperialism on the right."--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Heads of state-- Psychology, Case studies.
Political culture, Case studies.
Political leadership-- Psychological aspects, Case studies.