Playing God
Subtitle: seven fateful moments when great men met to change the world
By: Charles L. Mee, Jr.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Summit meetings -- History.; World politics.; International relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of knowing : Pope Leo the Great and Attila the Hun; title: The illusion of power : Henry VIII and Francis I; title: The inevitability of surprise : Cortés and Moctezuma; title: The principle of contingency : Metternich, Castlereagh, Talleyrand and others; title: The false lessons of history : Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George; title: The rule of unintended consequences : Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin; title: The fantasy of realism : Bush, Kohl, Mitterand and others.