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Leadership in turbulent times /

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Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2018]
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Presidents > United States.
Political leadership > United States > Case studies.
Character > Case studies.
United States > Politics and government > Case studies.
Crisis management > United States > Case studies.
Political culture > United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Ambition and the recognition of leadership
  • Abraham: "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition"
  • Theodore: "I rose like a rocket"
  • Franklin: "No, call me Franklin"
  • Lyndon: "A steam engine in pants"
  • Part 2. Adversity and growth
  • Abraham Lincoln: "I must die or be better"
  • Theodore Roosevelt: "The light has gone out of my life"
  • Franklin Roosevelt: "Above all, try something"
  • Lyndon Johnson: "The most miserable period of my life"
  • Part 3. The leader and the times: how they led
  • Transformational leadership: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
  • Crisis management: Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike
  • Turnaround leadership: Franklin Roosevelt and the Hundred Days
  • Visionary leadership: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
  • Epilogue: Of death and legacy.