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Leadership in turbulent times /

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Main Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2018]
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Roosevelt, Franklin D > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865.
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.
Character.
Crisis management.
Political culture.
Political leadership.
Politics and government.
Presidents.
United States.
Politics > Case studies.
Crisis management > Case studies.
Political culture > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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 remembrance.