History's People: Personalities and the Past

In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little—known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk—takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; Willia...