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THE MYTH OF THE STRONG LEADER: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE By Archie Brown Mint
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- ISBN-10
- 0465027660
- Publication Name
- Basic Books
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780465027668
- Book Title
- Myth of the Strong Leader : Political Leadership in the Modern Age
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Political Science
- Topic
- Leadership, Comparative Politics, American Government / National
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 25.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama. All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but rarely do we question what makes some leaders successful while others falter. In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, renowned Oxford politics professor Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders -- meaning those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process -- are the most successful and admirable. In reality, only a minority of political leaders will truly make a lasting difference. Though we tend to dismiss more collegial styles of leadership as weak, it is often the most cooperative leaders who have the greatest impact. Drawing on extensive research and decades of political analysis and experience, Brown illuminates the achievements, failures and foibles of a broad array of twentieth century politicians. Whether speaking of redefining leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Margaret Thatcher, who expanded the limits of what was politically possible during their time in power, or the even rarer transformational leaders who played a decisive role in bringing about systemic change -- Charles de Gaulle, Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela, among them -- Brown challenges our commonly held beliefs about political efficacy and strength. Overturning many of our assumptions about the twentieth century's most important figures, Brown's conclusions are both original and enlightening. The Myth of the Strong Leader compels us to reassess the leaders who have shaped our world - and to reconsider how we should choose and evaluate those who will lead us into the future.
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Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465027660
ISBN-13
9780465027668
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168271004
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Book Title
Myth of the Strong Leader : Political Leadership in the Modern Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Leadership, Comparative Politics, American Government / National
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Business & Economics, Political Science
Number of Pages
480 Pages
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Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
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"...an important and unusual read ... Brown does a wonderful job of showing how the same qualities that can seem so appealing in strong leaders can lead, in the mildest cases, to bad decision-- and, in the most extreme cases, to death and suffering on a massive scale ... Though The Myth of the Strong Leader is about political leadership, you come away from Brown's book with a deeper understanding of leadership in general."-- Bill Gates' Favorite Books of 2016
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303.340904
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23
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