Bruce W. Jentleson combines scholarly breadth and depth with practical insight and inspired storytelling.With diplomacy too often in retreat and under attack, we need to learn from the past as well as understand the future. Bruce W. Jentlesons wide-ranging study is a welcome reminder that big problems are there to be solved, and can be.Peace has many facets and many types of leaders. Bruce W. Jentleson provides a fascinating selection of examples of who, why, how and what they have done. It is a very readable account that brings new insights to a crucial subject.In the twentieth century, great leaders played vital roles in making the world a fairer and more peaceful place. How did they do it? What lessons can be drawn for the twenty-first-century global agenda?