Gar ry Kasparov has long admired Harry Truman and Winston Churchill not only for their wartime leadership but for the strength and vision these two great men displayed in establishing the framework of the post-War world. Churchill's prescience in Fulton in 1946 in describing the threat of Communism and Josef Stalin's Iron Curtain was complemented by Truman's tenaciousness in implementing the policies of aid and containment that saved millions of lives from totalitarianism. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War by being faithful to Churchill and Truman's vision of democracy and freedom and, coincidentally, liberated a Soviet chess champion named Garry Kasparov.

When the Cold War ended in 1991, says Kasparov, it was necessary to imitate the courageous and far-reaching strategy of 1946 by developing new institutions and policies to continue the project of global democracy. Instead, the mood of celebration led to complacency and, eventually, to the appearance of new threats to the world order and the reappearance of old ones, such as Vladimir Putin's aggressive dictatorship. Kasparov argues-mischievously employing a phrase erroneously attributed to Churchill-that the free world must find the courage to continue the mission of Truman and Churchill by applying their timeless lessons of leadership. Kasparov makes a passionate call for an end to complacency and a return to boldly protecting and projecting the values of democracy and individual liberty around the world.