Leadership
Subtitle: In Turbulent Times
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Epub
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781476795942
Copyright date: 2018
Description: “After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians” (USA TODAY). In her “inspiring” (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to 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?

“If ever our nation needed a short course on presidential leadership, it is now” (The Seattle Times). This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today’s polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. “Goodwin’s volume deserves much praise—it is insightful, readable, compelling: Her book arrives just in time” (The Boston Globe).
source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Leadership/Doris-Kearns-Goodwin/9781476795942
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Ambition and the recognition of leadership --; title: Abraham: "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition" --; title: Theodore: "I rose like a rocket" --; title: Franklin: "No, call me Franklin" --; title: Lyndon: "A steam engine in pants" --; title: Part 2. Adversity and growth --; title: Abraham Lincoln: "I must die or be better" --; title: Theodore Roosevelt: "The light has gone out of my life" --; title: Franklin Roosevelt: "Above all, try something" --; title: Lyndon Johnson: "The most miserable period of my life" --; title: Part 3. The leader and the times: how they led --; title: Transformational leadership: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation --; title: Crisis management: Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike --; title: Turnaround leadership: Franklin Roosevelt and the Hundred Days --; title: Visionary leadership: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights --; title: Epilogue: Of death and remembrance.