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...make the case for the great names on the list, TIME sought out a hall-of-fame collection of writers and thinkers. The logic was simple: Who better to profile Winston Churchill than British writer John Keegan, perhaps the greatest living military historian. William F. Buckley Jr. was so taken with his subject--Pope John Paul II--that he awakened senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo early on a Sunday morning to chat about how best to end his piece. The pairings--which also include Elie Wiesel on Hitler, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Eleanor Roosevelt and Salman Rushdie on Gandhi...
...irony and magic of Einhorn were that countless establishmentarians were his friends too. Ira had a "brilliant network," says George Keegan, a Sun Oil Co. executive who later formed a touchy-feely neighborhood-development group with Einhorn. "He knew enough corporate people to get our projects funded simply by strolling into people's offices and asking for the money...
...Einhorn. One was nearly strangled; the other had a Coke bottle smashed over her head. So much for flower power. The public embodiment of peace and love was in private a monster. Sickened friends spoke of betrayal and wondered if Einhorn had ever cared about anything but Ira. George Keegan: "We were walking down the street together. People who once would come up and hug Ira crossed the street and averted their eyes...He looked at me, sad, and said, 'I'm not going to be able to be Ira Einhorn now.' And I realized he was a selfish, arrogant...
...History of Warfare represents a synthesis of what Keegan has absorbed in more than three decades of studying war, teaching military men and listening to them. Like his 1976 work The Face of Battle, his new book is alive with sudden, unexpected details and delights of knowledge -- a treatise, for example, on how to make a composite bow, that revolutionary asset of the horse warrior; a detour into the institutionalized vengeance of Maori warmaking; or a splendid interlude on the effects of geography on war, including a disquisition on why Adrianople, Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought...
...Keegan's charms has always been his independence, his sometimes brusque contempt for the merely academic: "How blinkered social scientists are to the importance of temperament," he remarks while discussing the attractions of warrior life and military culture. "I am tempted, after a lifetime's acquaintance with the British army, to argue that some men can be nothing but soldiers...