From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives - Tapa dura

Jeffrey Garten has brilliantly updated Thomas Carlyle s Great Man Theory of History in his gallery of transformative figures, notably including a woman, who have spurred globalization. A tour-de-force imaginative, informative and just plain fun to read. --STROBE TALBOTT, president of The Brookings Institution, former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and former editor-at-large, TIME Magazine"

Succinct, erudite and entertaining, "From Silk to Silicon" is a most original account of the genesis of globalization. --Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Le?n, former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization"

Succinct, erudite and entertaining, From Silk to Silicon is a most original account of the genesis of globalization. --Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Le?n, former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization"

Garten compellingly recounts how ten individuals helped shape the modern world, reminding us of the possibilities begat by transformative leadership. --Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, former U. S. Secretary of State"

This is a tale of globalization and leadership that is both sweeping and personal. By focusing on ten transformational people, it shows how individuals can affect the flow of history. It s a guide to the future as well as to the past. --Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin"

"Garten compellingly recounts how ten individuals helped shape the modern world, reminding us of the possibilities begat by transformative leadership."--Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, former U. S. Secretary of State

"This is a tale of globalization and leadership that is both sweeping and personal. By focusing on ten transformational people, it shows how individuals can affect the flow of history. It's a guide to the future as well as to the past."--Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin

"Jeffrey Garten has brilliantly updated Thomas Carlyle's Great Man Theory of History in his gallery of transformative figures, notably including a woman, who have spurred globalization. A tour-de-force-imaginative, informative and just plain fun to read."--STROBE TALBOTT, president of The Brookings Institution, former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and former editor-at-large, TIME Magazine

"Succinct, erudite and entertaining, From Silk to Silicon is a most original account of the genesis of globalization."--Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization