15 Great Leaders Through History

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Tak's view of the compilation.

Probably belongs on the list:

Golda Meir
Franklin Roosevelt
Wiston Churchill
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mohandes Ghandi
Nelson Mandela

Probably doesn't belong on the list:

Gloria Stienem
Eleanor Roosevelt
Douglas MacAurthur
John Paul II

What?:

Vince Lombardi
Steve Jobs
James T Kirk--wasn't even real
Oprah Winfrey
Count Basie--Love the music, but a great leader of history?

Overall, the list is very, very short-sighted. Even in the terms of American history, most of the 'great American presidents' are absent. Where are Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and the rest? Going a step further and outside of the US, where are Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Nelson, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, Ivan III, Elizabeth I, Frederick Barbarosa, Richard I, Charlemange, Constantine I, and Saladin? Going further, what about, Ceasar Agustus, Marcus Aurelius, Alexander the Great, Nebuchadnezzar II and Ramses II? Among the great idealists and philosphers, what of Kant, Hobbes, Descartes, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, et al?

On the whole, Life has compiled a very silly list.