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Leadership - Lessons from the Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson for Turbulent Times (Hardcover)
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Leadership - Lessons from the Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson for Turbulent Times (Hardcover)
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The New York Times No. 1 Bestseller 'What Goodwin brings to this
book - above all her other attributes - is a true sense of wisdom .
. . superb' Professor Andrew Roberts, author, Churchill: Walking
with Destiny In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed
studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an
illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and
exercise of fully developed leadership. 'A marvelous banquet with
four great presidents who provide lessons for all. Pull up a chair'
Warren Buffett Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come
from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the
leader make the times or do the times make the leader? In
Leadership Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has
studied - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized
leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized as
leaders by others. By looking back to their first entry into public
life, when their paths were filled with confusion, hope, and fear,
we can share their struggles and follow their development into
leaders. Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with
dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to
forever shatter their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged
fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. No
common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set
apart in background, abilities and temperament, they shared a
fierce ambition, a hunger to succeed beyond expectations. All four,
at their best, were guided by a sense of moral purpose that led
them at moments of great challenge to summon their talents to
enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. This seminal work
provides a roadmap for aspiring and established leaders. In today's
polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of
fracture and fear take on a singular urgency. 'Doris Goodwin is the
grand master of presidential biography ... Riveting, uplifting, and
incisive, Leadership is a culminating work of a true intellectual
artist' Jim Collins, author Good to Great, co-author Built to Last
'Pulitzer- and Carnegie Medal-winning historian Goodwin draws on 50
years of scholarship in this strong and resonant addition to the
literature of the presidency . . . extremely relevant' Booklist
'Remarkable ... comprehensive, human, and engaging, clearly the
results of long study' Publishers Weekly, starred review
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