Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness

By Walter Isaacson

Book Overview

Find the surprising and revelatory answers to these questions 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 individually, taken together the essays represent a valuable set of reflections on the enduring ingredients of leadership--the focus of an introduction by Walter Isaacson.

This book is a treat for lovers of fine history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393076555
• ISBN13: 9780393076554
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"