Synopses & Reviews
This book explores the 'mental maps' of twelve leaders during the era of two world wars. It has chapters on the giants of these years, men like Lloyd George, Lenin, Streseman, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt and Churchill, whose ideas cast a compelling shadow. It also has essays on important figures who are not always at the forefront of the literature on this period, men such as Atatuerk, Benes, Chiang, Poincaré and Mao.
Synopsis
This book explores the 'mental maps' of leading political figures of the era of two world wars. Chapters focus on those giants whose ideas cast a compelling shadow: Lloyd George, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Briand and Stresemann, as well as other important figures: Poincare, Atatuerk, Benes, Chiang and Mao.
Table of Contents
Introduction--S.Casey & J. Wright * Raymond Poincaré--J.Keiger * Lloyd George--S.Marks * The View from the Kremlin: Soviet Assumptions about the Capitalist World in the 1920s and 1930s--C.Read * One mind at Locarno? Gustav Stresemann and Aristide Briand--J.Wright& J.Wright * Atatuerk--C.Foss * Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedong--R.Mitter * Hamaguchi Osachi--E.Hotta Edvard Benes--R.Crampton Mussolini, Il Duce--A.Cassels Hitler--N.Gregor * The Maps on Churchill's Mind--G.Best * Franklin D. Roosevelt--S.Casey