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In the twentieth century, great leaders helped make the world a fairer and more peaceful place. How did they do it? This question is at the heart of Bruce Jentleson’s new book The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage. Writing at a time when peace seems elusive and conflict endemic, when tensions are running high among the major powers, when democracy and human rights are yet again under siege, and when climate change is moving from future to present tense, Jentleson shows how twentieth-century leaders from around the world rewrote the zero-sum scripts they were handed and successfully made breakthroughs on issues long thought intractable.

Bruce Jentleson is professor of public policy and political science at Duke University. He has served as a senior advisor to the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Director; as a foreign policy aide in the U.S. Senate; and as foreign policy advisor to Al Gore during his 2000 presidential campaign. He is also a co-director of the Bridging the Gap project promoting greater policy relevance among academics specializing in international affairs.

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