Personalidad y poder

The 20th century saw the rise of rulers who mastered a wide variety of instruments of control, persuasion, and death. In the context of profound social changes and ruthless wars, these leaders somehow gained the ability to do whatever they wanted regardless of the consequences for others. What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such limitless power? And what brought that era to an end? In a convincing and lucid way, Ian Kershaw offers us a series of interpretive essays on the way in which some politically unusual personalities obtained and exercised power, from those who operated on a large scale such as Lenin, Stalin, Hitler or Mussolini, to those who had a more national impact such as Tito and Franco, going through other fundamental names of the 20th century such as Churchill, de Gaulle, Adenauer, Gorbachev, Thatcher and Kohl.