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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- 1. On Leadership -- 2. Jaruzelski I: On the Gravity of one - of any - Political Decision -- 3. On the Illusion of Democratic Leadership -- 4. An Impossible Encounter - The First -- 5. On the Tendency to Ban Machiavelli to Hell -- 6. On the Limits of Idealism -- 7. Charisma -- 8. On the Attempts to Tame a Myth -- 9. On the Skepticism Toward Too Much Democracy -- 10. On the Unavoidability of Lying -- 11. On the Misery of Collaboration -- 12. On the Presumption of Objectivity -- 13. On the Ambiguity of Difference -- 14. On the Amorality of Foreign Policy -- 15. On the Logic of Leninism -- 16. On the True Nature of Personal Leadership -- 17. On the Necessity of Limiting Evil -- 18. On the Longing for William Tells and Robin Hoods -- 19. On the Necessity of Becoming a Parvenu -- 20. An Impossible Encounter - The Second -- 21. On the Democratic Dissolution of Politics in General -- 22. On the Transformation of the People into the Marketplace -- 23. The Cockpit -- 24. On the Possibility of Intellectual and Moral Leadership -- 25. Jaruzelski II: On the Arbitrary Nature of Historical Perception -- 26. Bibliography -- Index of Persons.