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Do Great Men Actually Matter? With Jared Diamond
The Pulitzer Prize winner says Hitler, Churchill, and UCLA basketball coach John Wooden might have more in common than we’d think.
I read presidential biographies for fun, and I can watch basketball for hours. So when Jared Diamond published a book about how much one leader can change history, using basketball coaches as a test case, it felt like it was written for me.
Diamond is the UCLA professor who won a Pulitzer for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies in 1998. …
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