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Leadership

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2018
ISBN
978-1-4767-9594-2
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11650049 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
1176\0
Topic
History
Time added
2018-09-23 02:39:38
United States

Description

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders. No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities, and temperament, these men shared a fierce ambition and a deep-seated resilience that enabled them to surmount uncommon adversity. At their best,...

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