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...gruffness that wasn't even skin deep. Along the way, his heart failed him, several times, but he continued jetting around the world to get more stories and interview leaders ranging from the awful--Saddam Hussein--to the awesome--Nelson Mandela--to the truly historic--Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, hours before he probably would have died, he received a heart transplant. He bravely endured near fatal attempts by his body to reject the new heart and came back to work and to more adventures. When he fell ill late last year, the doctors didn't think he would make...
...Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union...
...book, he undertakes a ranking. There is, first, "Outstanding Popes," followed by "Good or Above Average Popes." John Paul II makes neither of these categories. Father McBrien rates him as less than great because he did not flesh out Vatican II. But he rates him as "Historically Important," as Gorbachev would confirm...
...have answered so many astonishing questions in the century now ending--Can we put a man on the moon? How do atoms work?--that the unanswerable rankles a bit. But mysteries endure, and even after a century of Roosevelts, peppered with a Gorbachev and a Mandela and a Churchill, we are no closer to an answer for the greatest of historical questions: Where do leaders come from...
...lively question as we gaze at the pink morning of a new century, a question that vibrates with possibility and that engages both our hopes and fears: Who will be the Gorbachev of 2085? Will we have another Hitler? Who will rescue us from him? It's a historical tautology that leaders are generated by their times and that great issues produce great men. (One historian, in TIME's ranking of U.S. Presidents, observes that Calvin Coolidge was "unlucky" enough to live in boring times.) And while we can't predict the leaders of the next decade, let alone...