Margaret MacMillan: "Dangerous Games" (Modern Library Chronicles)

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Margaret MacMillan: "Dangerous Games" (Modern Library Chronicles)

Dictators as well as legitimate political leaders often manipulate history to justify their actions. Why knowledge of the past is critical to democracy and how history has been used and abused.

Dictators as well as legitimate political leaders often manipulate history to justify their actions. Why knowledge of the past is critical to democracy and how history has been used and abused.

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Margaret MacMillan

historian; author of "Paris 1919," "Nixon and Mao" and "Women of the Raj."

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