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Arab Spring demands echo ideals of Ataturk | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/14/2011

"Arab Spring demands echo ideals of Ataturk

Austin Bay

is the author of Ataturk: Lessons in Leadership From the Greatest General of the Ottoman Empire, published this month by Palgrave/Macmillan

The pragmatic visionary is a rare individual, particularly one with the iron will required to attain revolutionary political power and the liberalizing genius to construct a political system capable of evolving, prospering, and inspiring long after the gifted personality is gone."

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