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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? Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a...

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Main Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns (Author)
Other Authors: Bridges, Beau (Narrator), Morse, David, 1953- (Narrator), Sanders, Jay O., 1953- (Narrator), Thomas, Richard, 1951- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Presidents > United States.
Political leadership > United States > Case studies.
Character > Case studies.
Crisis management > United States > Case studies.
Political culture > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government > Case studies.
Case studies.
Audiobooks.
Summary: 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? 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.
Item Description: Title from label.
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 15 audio discs (approximately 18 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time: 18:00:00
ISBN: 9781508232957
1508232954
Author Notes: Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 4, 1943. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Colby College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1968. She taught at Harvard University and worked as an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson during his last year in the White House.

She has written numerous books including The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Wait Till Next Year, and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and Leadership: In Turbulent Times. She has received numerous awards including Pulitzer Prize in history, the Harold Washington Literary Award, the Ambassador Book Award for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, and the Lincoln Prize and the Book Prize for American History for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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