Peacemakers
Margaret Macmillan, John Murray
This book brings together the personalities, ideals and
prejudices of the people who shaped the Paris Peace Conference
of 1919, after ‘the war to end all wars’. Macmillan
argues that the peacemakers – at its heart the three
great leaders Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau
- have been unfairly made scapegoats for the mistakes of
those who came later; it offers a prismatic view of the moment
when much of the modern world was first sketched out.
Margaret Macmillan is currently Professor of History at
Ryerson University in Toronto and will shortly be taking
up the position of Provost of Trinity College, University
of Toronto.
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