Profiles in Leadership

Résumé du livre

The world's greatest achievers have always sought out the stories of power. George Washington steeped himself in Caesar's Gallic Wars, General Patton read everything he could on Napoleon, Winston Churchill reveled in the study of Queen Elizabeth I. But in the sixty or seventy hours of today's work week, who has time to mine a mountain of biographies in search of a nugget or two? In Profiles in Leadership, noted historian and best-selling author Alan Axelrod offers the nuggets without the mountain. In 200 concise and compelling narratives, he presents the careers of leaders from Genghis Khan, to William the Conqueror, to Joan of Arc, to Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Dwight David Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Colin Powell, and many more, from many cultures, countries, and eras.