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Loading... Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkeyby Andrew Mango
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://stromata.tripod.com/id88.htm (  ) TomVeal | Aug 21, 2006 |  It's a cliche that Ataturk was the Founder of Modern Turkey but Mango puts some meaning into it by showing him stepping into the vacuum of collapsing Ottoman rule, defending the fledgling country and giving it a new Western/secular bias. An excellent book. ( ) Miro | Oct 7, 2005 | 
 The author, Istanbul-born and a writer on things Turkish, has produced far and away the best biography of Atatürk in English, one boasting solid research, fine presentation, and sensible judgments. The result is a more textured and complex picture than hitherto available. Mango skillfully captures the themes of his tale. "Atatürk was a competent commander, a shrewd politician, a statesman of supreme realism. But above all he was a man of the Enlightenment. And the Enlightenment was not made by saints."
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