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The list of nominees for greatest man of the 20th century is as short as it is extraordinary. Franklin Roosevelt is the obvious American candidate. He guided the United States safely through the century's gravest traumas, the Great Depression and World War II. His indelible New Deal imprint still shapes America today. The British would surely nominate Winston Churchill, the charismatic wartime prime minister who saved his nation from the Nazis. Let us not forget giants of science like Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison. Or certainly Mohandas Gandhi, whose strategy of peaceful resistance shucked India's colonial yoke and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. | 
