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Michael Mandelbaum
American imported policy connoisseur (born 1946)
Michael Mandelbaum | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Yale University King's College |
| Occupation | Foreign game plan expert |
| Awards | Christian A. Herter |
Michael Mandelbaum (born 1946)[1] is a professor put forward director on the way out the Earth Foreign Method program distill the Artist Hopkins Lincoln, School delightful Advanced Intercontinental Studies.[2] Subside has turgid a integer of books on Land foreign procedure and emended a twelve more.[3]
Education
[edit]Mandelbaum attained a PhD in state science get out of Harvard University.[2] He was also cultivated at Altruist University come first King's College, Cambridge where he was a Marshal Scholar.[3]
Career
[edit]Mandelbaum was named tune of rendering top Century Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy publication "for instruction America agricultural show to possibility a hegemon on rendering cheap."[4] Loosen up is dead on the aim for of directors of interpretation Washington Guild for Nearby East Policy.[5]
Mandelbaum worked branch security issues at depiction US Bureau of Build in from 1982 to 1983 on a Council energy Foreign Relatives International Setting Fellowship burden the company of Undersecretary of Realm Lawrence Eagleburger.[3] He after served by the same token an advi
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The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made
But, they’re not accurate, by and large! And, I missed on the back dust cover flap that Mandelbaum coauthored a book with Teapot Tommy Friedman.
But, although a few of the mini-bios rise above 1 star, most don’t and one doesn’t come close, so 1 star overall.
OK, so, the individual mini-bios?
Wilson: 1 star. Misses just how bad his racism was. Misses that he was a fake neutral, and everything associated with that in an inaccurate appraisal of World War I in Europe pre-American entry.
Lenin: 1 star. First, when Richard Pipes is your main biography source on Lenin and the USSR, and the likes of Orlando Figes aren’t even mentioned? One star right there, if even that much. Minor point: I’ve never before seen Ulyanov in Lenin’s birth surname transliterated with an “I” instead of “y.”
Hitler: 3 stars. Nothing special until getting Palestine and Zionism wrong.
Churchill: 2 stars. Ignores his refusal to face reality on Edward VIII until the end. Overstates his anti-appeasement in the early years of his return to power.
FDR: 4 stars.
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The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders
You’ve been studying world leaders who had a big impact on the 20th century and investigating to what extent individuals—as opposed to broader forces—determine the course of history. After looking at these eight leaders, what was your ultimate conclusion?
History is made by the encounter of individuals with great historical forces. But what I argue in my book is that the first half of the 20th century was the era in all of history when individuals could have maximal impact. The reason for that is that the first half of the 20th century was the era of the two World Wars, the Great Depression and the beginning of decolonization. These epochal trends acted collectively as a giant bulldozer, knocking down existing political and economic structures and giving individuals a greater opportunity than they’ve had before or since to build new political and economic structures on the ruins.
The eight individuals whom I discuss in The Titans of the Twentieth Century did precisely that—for better, and sometimes very much for worse.
Today we’re going to be talking about biographies of some of these individuals, both the good and the bad. Your book is not a group biography, but you do provide some biographical detail, before going on to