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What is the connection between literature and leadership? Are
leaders born or are they made? Elizabeth D. Samet, the author of
the award-winning Soldier s Heart and a professor of English at
West Point, brings to this anthology her profound experiences as a
teacher of soldiers, her discerning ear for excellent writing, and
her belief in the vital role of the humanities in cultivating
leaders. Great writers and thinkers in conversation that is what
makes Samet s approach distinctive. Samet organizes the writings
around the essence of leadership the insights, skills, and actions
that effective leaders, with time and experience, learn to live by.
What are these insights, skills, and actions? Newcomers to any
organization must first study the system, then find and emulate
models, risk change, cultivate trust, negotiate, take
responsibility, learn from failure, learn to resist, innovate,
discipline desire, and eventually let go. These ideas, brought to
life in selections written by or about unforgettable leaders be
they heroic, quixotic, or villainous shape the book. Machiavelli,
Macbeth, and Milosz, Ghandi and Gawande, Douglass and Didion are
just a sampling of the 102 writers and works included. Readers of
Leadership will enjoy its sheer variety at the same time that they
enter a thought-provoking, often moving conversation that is both
ancient and crucially current."
Originally published in 1885 by Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant's
landmark memoir has been annotated by Elizabeth Samet in this
lavish edition. No previous edition combines such a sweep of
historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that
Samet, obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table.
Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or presenting
majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a richly
annotated edition. Never has Grant's transformation from tanner's
son to military leader been more insightfully and passionately
explained than in this timely edition, appearing on the 150th
anniversary of Grant's 1868 presidential election.
What is the connection between literature and leadership? Are
leaders born or are they made? What roles can creativity and
imagination play in developing strategic thinkers in business, law,
politics, medicine, and beyond? Elizabeth D. Samet, the author of
the award-winning Soldier s Heart and a civilian professor of
English at West Point, brings to this anthology her profound
experiences as a teacher and her belief in the vital role of the
humanities in cultivating leaders. In incisive section
introductions, Samet focuses on the skills and qualities that
distinguish the unforgettable leaders be they heroic, quixotic, or
villainous who come to life in the selections. Readers of
Leadership will enjoy its sheer variety Machiavelli and Milosz,
Douglass and Didion are just a sampling of the 102 writers and
works included. At the same time, readers will enter a
thought-provoking, often moving conversation about leadership that
is both ancient and crucially current."
This book highlights obedience as an American cultural motif by
examining the ways in which citizens understand and dramatize the
struggle between autonomy and allegiance. Willing Obedience tells
the story of Americans who worked out the simultaneous demands of
liberty and obedience in fiction, military memoir, and political
writing from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. In
contrast to the European model of a subject's blind obedience to a
monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy
even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In
particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose
surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact
representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.
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