Playing God - Charles L. Mee
seven fateful moments when great men met to change the world
KORTE INHOUD
Throughout time, leaders at the pinnacle of power - popes and kings, presidents and prime ministers, even czars and generals - have subscribed to the belief that they can change the course of history, not by the force of arms, but through charm, skillful negotiation, honesty, deceit, and all the other arts of peaceful human exchange. Now, in Playing God, Charles L. Mee, Jr. - author of the critically acclaimed Genius of the People and Meeting at Potsdam - reproduces seven singular moments when heads of state have come together to decide the future of the world. He examines the uses of summitry, from the directness of Pope Leo's confrontation with Attila the Hun outside Rome to the theater of Henry VIII and Francis I's meeting on the Field of the Cloth of Gold; from the surprise encounter between Cortes and Moctezuma to the intricacies negotiated by Metternich and Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna; from the ironies of Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George's summit at the Paris Peace Conference to the unintend...
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1993Uitgever: Simon & Schuster269 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0671678884ISBN-13: 9780671678883Koop dit boek tweedehands
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1993, hardcover with dustjacket, good copy [Auteur: Mee Jr., Charles L.] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Simon & Schuster] [Jaar: 1993] [Titel: Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World]
