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Profiles in leadership : historians on the elusive quality of greatness / edited by Walter Isaacson.
- Title
- Profiles in leadership : historians on the elusive quality of greatness / edited by Walter Isaacson.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Isaacson, Walter
- Description
- 331 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A collection of essays reflecting on the enduring ingredients of leadership.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Walter Isaacson -- George Washington, the general / Thomas Fleming -- Charles Finney, prophet of social reform / Frances FitzGerald -- President Ulysses S. Grant and the battle for equality / Sean Wilentz -- J. Pierpont Morgan : he knew he was right / Jean Strouse -- Chief Joseph and the challenge of Indian leadership / Elliott West -- When presidents become weak / Robert Dallek -- The phenomenon of W.E.B. DuBois / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Mr. McGraw / Kevin Baker -- Hoover and Roosevelt : two approaches to leadership / Alan Brinkley -- The qualities of leadership : Dwight D. Eisenhower as warrior and president / David M. Kennedy -- The implausible Wendell Willkie : leadership ahead of its time / David Levering Lewis -- "Am I a 'screwball', or am I a pioneer?" : Pauli Murray's Civil Rights movement / Glenda Gilmore -- Robert Kennedy, the empathetic leader / Evan Thomas.
- ISBN
- 9780393076554 (hbk.)
- 0393076555 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010021459
- OCLC
- 601098335
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library