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Old 01-08-2011, 09:59 PM   #249
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Originally Posted by stamphater View Post
I guess we will agree to disagree about the book but I too did several papers on him and I certainly agree that no one else except perhaps JFK has been able to carry on with their mere presense.
Yeah, JFK was a boundary figure, and I say boundary because while he was charasmatic he didn't really bend a society.

Hitler bent a society completely to his views.

You could argue that Stalin and Saddam Hussein were both very similar in that effect. Maybe Mussolini, but I've never been sure about him.
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