Release Date:- 2018-09-18
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From Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
āAfter five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historiansā (USA TODAY). In her āinspiringā (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closelyāAbraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)āto show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope.
Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?
āIf ever our nation needed a short course on presidential leadership, it is nowā (The Seattle Times). This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In todayās polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. āGoodwinās volume deserves much praiseāit is insightful, readable, compelling: Her book arrives just in timeā (The Boston Globe).