His new book, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's. This book is a treat for lovers of fine history. Humorist Andy Borowitz believes good leadership is increasingly hard to find these days. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Entertaining and insightful individually, taken together the essays represent a valuable set of reflections on the enduring ingredients of leadership―the focus of an introduction by Walter Isaacson. Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness - Ebook written by Walter Isaacson. What made FDR a more successful leader during the Depression crisis than Hoover? Why was Eisenhower more effective as supreme commander during World War II than he was as president? Why was Grant one of the best presidents of his day, if not in all of American history? What drove Bobby Kennedy into the scrum of electoral politics? Who was Pauli Murray and why was she one of the most decisive figures in the movement for civil rights?įind the surprising and revelatory answers to these questions and more in this collection of new essays by great historians, including Sean Wilentz, Alan Brinkley, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jean Strouse, Robert Dallek, Frances FitzGerald, and others. The best historians in the land consider examples of great leadership, well known and surprising, from Washington to Willkie and more.
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