Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw politics contrary to our inner hopes

contrary to our inner hopes

it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths

Trauma can be found in many places

Scott subsequently found himself at the centre of a major political scandal and became an unlikely queer icon

said Allan Massie in The Scotsman

Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw politics contrary to our inner hopesOne of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do