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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 473 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...
Publisher
Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
People do not define you, Soledad O'Brien's Cuban mother repeatedly told her children. You define yourself. And so this mixed-race, first-generation Latina American would go on to succeed in her field, ultimately becoming an anchor for CNN. O'Brien's remarks, like the others included in this volume, reflect on what it means to be Latino in the United States. For her, It's succeeding, fulfilling the dream and then turning around and grabbing everybody...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 739 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of Waris a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present ... The man who went on to become the sixteenth president of the United States has assumed many roles in our historical consciousness,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan's character-driven political instincts and deeply impactful relationships across party lines--finding plenty of compelling insights for...
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