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Author | : Michael Mandelbaum |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197782493 |
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An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth century offered political leaders enormous scope for changing the world. This book consists of essays about eight who, for better and for worse, did just that. Woodrow Wilson had a vision for a cooperative world order that failed after the First World War but gained in influence after the Second. Vladimir Ilich Lenin founded the totalitarian communist political system that controlled a large part of the planet for much of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler started history's worst war and presided over history's worst atrocity, the Holocaust. Winston Churchill provided inspiring leadership to Great Britain, which made it possible to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt steered the United States through the Great Depression and the Second World War. Mohandas Gandhi led the movement, and developed the philosophy of non-violence, that ended British rule in South Asia, paving the way for the end of empires throughout Asia and Africa. David Ben-Gurion led the miraculous restoration of Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land. Mao Zedong, imposed totalitarian communist rule on China and became history's most egregious mass murderer. Individually, each chapter offers fresh and often surprising portraits of the twentieth century's titans. Collectively, the essays present a vivid and revealing portrait of a turbulent half-century that shaped the world of today.
Author | : Al Silverman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Sports |
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Author | : Al Silverman |
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Release | : 1968-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780399606021 |
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Author | : Alex Ross |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2007-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1429932880 |
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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author | : Time, inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Businesspeople |
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Author | : John Lukacs |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674728580 |
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The great themes woven through John Lukacs's spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and dangers of technology, the continuing democratization of the globe, and the limitations of knowledge.
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Total Pages | : 1148 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : English periodicals |
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Author | : Samuel G. Trexler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Lutheran Church |
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Author | : Jane Farrell-Beck |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1501363417 |
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The 20th Century was a fast-paced race into modernization-but how did it affect what we wear? From revolutionary politics to the new machine age, from war and depression to growth and prosperity, 20th-Century Dress in the United States shows how fashion goes hand-in-hand with history. The authors examine American dress from 1898 to 2004 and find innovation at every turn. Diversity and complexity are key: far from the fashion stereotypes embodied by popular ideas of "the Twenties" or "the Sixties"-periods noted for their youthful upheaval and influence-we see how every era has its conformists and rebels, from the Arrow Collar Man and the Gibson Girl to flappers, bell-bottom-clad hippies, and Jackie Kennedy. Each chapter explores the social, cultural, economic, artistic, and technological themes that shape fashion in both festive and everyday clothing. Changes in retailing and manufacturing are also examined, from the sweatshops of yesterday to the Internet shopping of today. From high fashion to low, glitz to grunge, this vivid and comprehensive book explains what we wear on our backs-and why.
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Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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