A panel discussion about the idea of the most important person of the 20th century

with Irving Kristol, Dan Rather, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Walter Isaacson, Mario Cuomo and Condoleezza Rice
in Current Affairs, Books
on Thursday, April 2, 1998 * * * * *

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An hour panel discussion about the criteria used to determine "Time" magazine's most important person of the 20th century. Panelists include Dan Rather of CBS News, Walter Isaacson of "Time", former Reagan adviser and Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice, presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin, leading neo-conservative Irving Kristol and Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo of New York.

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neoconservative
Mario Cuomo
Irving Kristol
Condoleezza Rice
great leaders
Dan Rather
Walter Isaacson
20th century

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    1. robertg  01/24/2011 03:02 PM Report

      I'm not very impressed with this panel. They all seem shockingly parochial, conflating American history and world history. But just one particular point.

      Kristol's dismissal of the influence of mass murderers is historically dubious. Stalin, for example, was crucial in the defeat of Nazism. And Mao did a lot to establish modern China as a global power. Of course this doesn't excuse their crimes--not at all. Even Hitler, for all his catastrophic effect, destroyed the old Prussian aristocracy--a negative, but a necessary negative in the creation of modern Germany. Again my point is not to defend these people, but to dispute a Manichaean view of history. The opposite could be said of leaders I admire tremendously. FDR deserves a great deal of credit for preserving liberal democracy against long odds, but one shouldn't excuse for a moment his internment of Japanese-Americans or his indifference to the Holocaust.