De Gaulle
If any modern democratic leader has believed in the "great man'''' theory of history and acted self-consciously in accordance with it, it was surely de Gaulle. On both occasions when he came to power it was in his own right, as a ``providential figure'''', not as the representative of a political or social movement. In office, his wielding of power was, by modern standards, remarkably personal; an...
If any modern democratic leader has believed in the "great man'''' theory of history and acted self-consciously in accordance with it, it was surely de Gaulle. On both occasions when he came to power it was in his own right, as a ``providential figure'''', not as the representative of a political or social movement. In office, his wielding of power was, by modern standards, remarkably personal; an...
