This edition: The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope 1945-1953

Episode Details
Original tape date: October 20, 2010.In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove leaders around the globe—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman—to rely on traditional power politics, and the lessons we can draw from their mistakes.

