Leadership in turbulent times
"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 d...
| Main Author: | Goodwin, Doris Kearns (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Ambition and the recognition of leadership
- Abraham: "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition"
- Theodore: "I rose like a rocket"
- Franklin: "No, call me Franklin"
- Lyndon: "A steam engine in pants"
- Part 2. Adversity and growth
- Abraham Lincoln: "I must die or be better"
- Theodore Roosevelt: "The light has gone out of my life"
- Franklin Roosevelt: "Above all, try something"
- Lyndon Johnson: "The most miserable period of my life"
- Part 3. How they led: man and the times
- Transformational leadership: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
- Crisis management: Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike
- Turnaround leadership: Franklin Roosevelt and the Hundred Days
- Visionary leadership: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
- Epilogue: Of death and legacy.