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Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who
have risen to the challenge of leading others. Sometimes their
power is undeserved, sometimes it's ill-used, but always their
actions have impact. But do leaders really make history, or does
history make leaders? And how might we harness the answers to find
and become better leaders today? For the past decade, Moshik Temkin
has been exploring these questions at Harvard University's Kennedy
School of Government and at universities around the world. In this
book, he offers a deep dive into the nature of leadership, from the
highest ranks to the most hopeless situations. Drawing on stories
from across history and culture, Temkin considers how leaders have
made decisions, inspired others and forged a path in challenging
circumstances - from the Great Depression to the dictatorship of
Rafael Trujillo, from the Suffragettes to the anticolonial wars of
the 20th century to the civil rights struggle - and how, in a world
desperate for good leadership, we can evaluate those decisions and
draw lessons for ourselves today.
Few American historians of his generation have had as much
influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley.
His debut work, the National Book Award-winning Voices of Protest,
launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of
American political life. His books give serious and original
treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the
struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits
of the presidency. A longtime professor at Harvard University and
Columbia University, Brinkley has shaped the field of U.S. history
for generations of students through his textbooks and his
mentorship of some of today's foremost historians. Alan Brinkley: A
Life in History brings together essays on his major works and
ideas, as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians
and thinkers beyond the academy whom Brinkley collaborated with,
befriended, and influenced. Among the luminaries in this volume are
the critic Frank Rich, the journalists Jonathan Alter and Nicholas
Lemann, the biographer A. Scott Berg, and the historians Eric Foner
and Lizabeth Cohen. Together, the seventeen essays that form this
book chronicle the life and thought of a working historian, the
development of historical scholarship in our time, and the role
that history plays in our public life. At a moment when Americans
are pondering the plight of their democracy, this volume offers a
timely overview of a consummate student-and teacher-of the American
political tradition.
A fresh assessment of the infamous murder case that exploded into
an affair of international concern What began as the obscure local
case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and
murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as
the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty
and their execution a political murder. This book is the first to
reveal the full national and international scope of the
Sacco-Vanzetti affair, uncovering how and why the two men became
the center of a global cause celebre that shook public opinion and
transformed America's relationship with the world. Drawing on
extensive research on two continents, and written with verve, this
book connects the Sacco-Vanzetti affair to the most polarizing
political and social concerns of its era. Moshik Temkin contends
that the worldwide attention to the case was generated not only by
the conviction that innocent men had been condemned for their
radical politics and ethnic origins but also as part of a reaction
to U.S. global supremacy and isolationism after World War I. The
author further argues that the international protest, which helped
make Sacco and Vanzetti famous men, ultimately provoked their
executions. The book concludes by investigating the affair's
enduring repercussions and what they reveal about global political
action, terrorism, jingoism, xenophobia, and the politics of our
own time.
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