Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness Audiobook (Free)

The very best historians in the land consider types of great leadership, popular and surprising, from Washington to Willkie and more.

What made FDR a more successful leader through the Depression problems than Hoover? Why was Eisenhower more effective as supreme commander during Globe War II than he was as president? Why was Grant one of the better presidents of his day time, if not in all of American history? What drove Bobby Kennedy into the scrum of electoral politics? Who was simply Pauli Murray and why was she one of the most decisive statistics in the motion for civil rights?

Find the surprising and revelatory answers to these issues and more in this collection of new essays by great historians, including Sean Wilentz, Alan Brinkley, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jean Strouse, Robert Dallek, Frances FitzGerald, and others. Entertaining and insightful independently, taken collectively the essays represent a very important group of reflections on the enduring elements of leadership.