The Peacemakers - by Bruce W Jentleson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the twentieth century, great leaders played vital roles in making the world a fairer and more peaceful place. How did they do it? What lessons can be drawn for the twenty-first-century global agenda?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Those questions are at the heart of <em>The Peacemakers</em>, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's <em>Profiles in Courage</em>. Writing at a time when peace seems elusive and conflict endemic, when tensions are running high among the major powers, when history has come roaring back, when democracy and human rights are yet again under siege, when climate change is moving from future to present tense, and when transformational statesmanship is so needed, Bruce W. Jentleson shows how twentieth-century leaders of a variety of types--national, international institutional, sociopolitical, nongovernmental--rewrote the zero-sum scripts they were handed and successfully made breakthroughs on issues long thought intractable.</p><p>The stories are fascinating: Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening; Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War; Dag Hammarskjöld's exceptional effectiveness as United Nations secretary-general; Nelson Mandela and South African reconciliation; Yitzhak Rabin seeking Arab-Israeli peace; Mahatma Gandhi as exemplar of anticolonialism and an apostle of nonviolence; Lech Walesa and ending Soviet bloc communism; Gro Harlem Brundtland and fostering global sustainability; and a number of others. While also taking into account other actors and factors, Jentleson tells us <em>who</em> each leader was as an individual, <em>why</em> they made the choices they did, <em>how</em> they pursued their goals, and <em>what</em> they were (and weren't) able to achieve.</p><p>And not just fascinating, but also instructive. Jentleson draws out lessons across the twenty-first-century global agenda, making clear how difficult peacemaking is, while powerfully demonstrating that it has been possible--and urgently stressing how necessary it is today. An ambitious book for ambitious people, <em>The Peacemakers</em> seeks to contribute to motivating and shaping the breakthroughs on which our future so greatly depends.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Bruce W. Jentleson combines scholarly breadth and depth with practical insight and inspired storytelling. <em>The Peacemakers</em> is a book badly needed for our time, reminding us all that the choices made by individual leaders can transform our world.--Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO, New America, and State Department policy planning director<br><br>Peace has many facets and many types of leaders. Bruce W. Jentleson provides a fascinating selection of examples of who, why, how and what they have done. It is a very readable account that brings new insights to a crucial subject.--Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard professor and author of Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era<br><br>With diplomacy too often in retreat and under attack, we need to learn from the past as well as understand the future. Bruce W. Jentleson's wide-ranging study is a welcome reminder that big problems are there to be solved, and can be.--Rt. Hon. David Miliband, president and CEO, International Rescue Committee, and United Kingdom foreign secretary<br>
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