Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Now an epic documentary event on the HISTORY Channel

The illuminating, bestselling exploration on leadership from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and also the inspiration for the HISTORY Channel multipart series Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians (USA TODAY). In her inspiring (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely--Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)--to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope.

Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?

If ever our nation needed a short course on presidential leadership, it is now (The Seattle Times). This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. Goodwin's volume deserves much praise--it is insightful, readable, compelling: Her book arrives just in time (The Boston Globe).
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ISBN 13 9781476795928
ISBN 10 1476795924
Title Leadership
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Year published 2018-09-18
Number of pages 496
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.