Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Based on the current book PERSONALITY AND POWER by noted historian Ian Kershaw, we will examine 12 national leaders and their personal effect on their own countries and on the entire European continent. While all of these individuals are well-known, we will discover new ideas about their rise to and use of power. Our constant measure will be the effect of a single human being in changing the history of modern Europe. We question: Do great individuals make history, or does history make possible great individuals? We also refer to Henry Kissinger's new work: SIX STUDIES IN WORLD STRATEGY.