Does the Great Man approach to history still have use?

[FrustratedFool]

What would be your argument for history not being best understood as the consequences rhat arise from peculiar people be?

much of what any great men can do is rigidly circumscribed by what the pervailing economic, technological, sociological and ethnological conditions collectively wrought by the masses.

That doesn't seem to go against the idea that many changes hinge upon the actions of peculiar minds, constrained though they may be.