Like the twenty-first century, the twentieth began with a surge of optimism about prospects for peace and prosperity. Democracy was on the march, and trade accounted for even larger proportions of many national economies than today. Yet we now look back upon the 1900s as among the bloodiest decades in human history. And we realize that much of the blame can be laid upon the rise of tyrants and repressive regimes. How different the century might have been without Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot on the one hand, and without Churchill, Roosevelt, Gandhi, and Golda Meir on the other.
Leadership does make a difference in the life of a society and in the course of history.
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