Changemakers

Louis Stewart, a Jungian analyst, examines how a person's place among their siblings may shape both their own life and the direction of the wider world. He links each of the four basic sibling positions to a particular style of political leadership, drawing on American presidents and British prime ministers to test the idea.

His central claim is that world leaders rise to prominence when the mood of their era fits the position they held within their family. To support this, he offers detailed and convincing discussions of several major political figures, among them Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Gorbachev, Stalin and Gandhi.