TY  - BOOK
AU  - Axelrod,Alan
TI  - Profiles in audacity: great decisions and how they were made 
SN  - 1402732821 (hardcover)
AV  - CT 104 A969p 2006
U1  - 153.8/3/0922 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Sterling Publishing Co.
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Personajes
KW  - Men
KW  - Women
KW  - World history
KW  - History
KW  - Miscellanea
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-298) and index; The decision in crisis -- The decision to venture -- The decision of conscience -- The decision to risk everything -- The decision to hope
N2  - In brief vignettes, historian Axelrod pinpoints and investigates the make-or-break event in the lives and careers of some of history's most significant figures. Axelrod reexamines history by answering the fascinating question of why the people who made history made their choices--and conveys the resonance of those choices today. The 46 profiles range from ancient times to the present day and include Cleopatra's decision to rescue Egypt; Washington's decision to cross the Delaware and win; Gandhi's decision to prevail against the British Empire without bloodshed; Truman's decision to drop the A-bomb and end WW II; Rosa Parks' decision to sit in for civil rights; Boris Yeltsin's decision to embrace a new world order; and Flight 93's decision to take a stand against terror.--From publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0709/2007270616-d.html
ER  -