Political leaders and leadership Books

Book SynopsisThough Jimmy Carter is widely viewed as one of the least effective modern presidents, the human rights agenda for which his administration is known remains high in the national awareness and continues to provide important justifications for presidential and congressional action a quarter-century later. The very elements of Carter's communications on human rights that engendered obstacles to the formation of a coherent and consistent policy - the term's vagueness, the difficulties of applying it, its uneasy relationship with national security interests, and the divergence between Democratic and Republican understandings - allowed 'human rights' to become a useful rubric for presidents, both Democratic and Republican, who followed Carter. Stuckey discusses the key elements of how human rights came to the nation's attention.

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Book SynopsisNo modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR’s administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. All of these changes required significant effort on the part of the president, who triumphed over fierce opposition and succeeded in remaking the American political system in ways that continue to shape our politics today. Using the metaphor of the good neighbour, Mary E. Stuckey examines the persuasive work that took place to authorise these changes. Through the metaphor, FDR’s administration can be better understood: his emphasis on communal values; the importance of national mobilisation in domestic as well as foreign affairs in defence of those values; his use of what he considered a particularly democratic approach to public communication; his treatment of friends and his delineation of enemies; and finally, the ways in which he used this rhetoric to broaden his neighbourhood from the limits of the United States to encompass the entire world, laying the groundwork for American ideological dominance in the post–World War II era.

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Book SynopsisLeaders and followers live in a relational world—a world in which leadership occurs in complex webs of relationships and dynamically changing contexts. Despite this, our theories of leadership are grounded in assumptions of individuality and linear causality. If we are to advance understandings of leadership that have more relevance to the world of practice, we need to embed issues of relationality into leadership studies. This volume addresses this issue by bringing together, for the first time, a set of prominent scholars from different paradigmatic and disciplinary perspectives to engage in dialogue regarding how to meet the challenges of relationality in leadership research and practice. Included are cutting edge thinking, heated debate, and passionate perspectives on the issues at hand. The chapters reveal the varied and nuanced treatments of relationality that come from authors’ alternative paradigmatic (entity, constructionist, critical) views. Dialogue scholars—reacting to the chapters—engage in spirited debate regarding the commensurability (or incommensurability) of the paradigmatic approaches. The editors bring the dialogue together with introductory and concluding chapters that offer a framework for comparing and situating the competing assumptions and perspectives spanning the relational leadership landscape. Using paradigm interplay they unpack assumptions, and lay out a roadmap for relational leadership research. A key takeaway is that advancing relational leadership research requires multiple paradigmatic perspectives, and scholars who are conversant in the assumptions brought by these perspectives.The book is aimed at those who feel that much of current leadership thinking is missing the boat in today’s complex, relational world. It provides an essential resource for all leadership scholars and practitioners curious about the nature of research on leadership, both those with much research exposure and those new to the field.

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Book SynopsisThe 1960 West Virginia presidential primary is arguably the most storied contest in modern American politics. And yet John F. Kennedy traveled the path so quickly from dynamic presidential candidate to martyred national icon that many forget his debt to West Virginia in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. In The Primary That Made a President, author Robert O. Rupp returns to 1960 West Virginia, reviewing the momentous contest for signs of the political changes to come. Besides propelling Kennedy to the Democratic nomination, the West Virginia primary changed the face of politics by advancing religious tolerance, foreshadowing future political campaigns, influencing public policy, and drawing national attention to a misunderstood region. It meant the end of a taboo that kept the Catholic faith out of American politics; the rise of the primary as a political tool for garnering delegate support; the beginning of a nationwide confrontation with Appalachian stereotypes; and the seeds for what would become Kennedy’s War on Poverty. Rupp explores these themes and more to discuss how a small Appalachian state, overwhelmingly poor and Protestant, became a key player in the political future of John F. Kennedy.The first of its kind among Kennedy biographies or histories of the 1960 election, this book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of the 1960 West Virginia presidential primary and its far-reaching significance for the political climate in the US.

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Book SynopsisThe final volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk documents the end of a presidency and the end of a life. With the Mexican War over, Polk focused on integrating new lands into the country, resolving discord over slavery, and planning for a retirement that proved all too short. His letters of April 1848 to June 1849 reveal his and his contemporaries’ thoughts on a nation racing from an international conflict toward a civil war.Having won half of Mexico’s land, Polk wanted to create territorial or state governments for New Mexico and California. He chafed under Congress’s inability to agree on whether to permit slavery there. Clashes in New Mexico, Oregon, and YucatÁn, meanwhile, involved Americans in further violence. Like many Americans, Polk welcomed the republican revolutions that swept Europe. But he soon learned that conservative armies were reversing those gains. From here at home, he received petitions by Native Americans to remedy ill treatment by an administration intent on their removal.Though he refused to seek reelection, Polk closely followed the presidential campaign of 1848. Stung by the victory of Zachary Taylor, one of his chief generals and now a leading Whig, he still happily left the White House for his retirement in Nashville. In his new mansion he hoped to rest and socialize while continuing to profit from the labor of slaves on his Mississippi plantation.His voyage home, alas, took Polk through a US entry point of a worldwide cholera pandemic. He arrived in Tennessee ill and died only three months after leaving office. Others were left to mourn the fifty-three-year-old, to assess his legacy, and to deal with the consequences of his actions.Right to the end, Polk corresponded with diverse men and women. This volume includes letters by future presidents, to a past first lady, and by the newly installed Vicaire of the German Empire. It includes letters by pro-annexation Cubans, to India’s poet laureate, and by a planter who would become one of the earliest female physicians. Presented here with full annotation, they illuminate politics, diplomacy, economy, and culture.This volume concludes a six-decade-long project to render accessible key primary sources in US history. From slave escapes to presidential lies and from gas lighting to temperance reform, the letters herein expose controversy and change at the end of one of America’s most consequential presidencies.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents more than five hundred annotated original documents from Andrew Jackson’s sixth presidential year. They include his private memoranda, intimate family letters, official messages, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indian leaders, political friends and foes, and plain citizens throughout the country.The year 1834 began with Jackson battling the United States Senate. Pursuing his campaign against the federally chartered Bank of the United States, Jackson in 1833 had installed Roger Taney as interim Treasury secretary to transfer the government’s deposits to selected state-chartered “pet” banks. The Bank retaliated by curtailing its business, setting off a commercial crisis and a political frenzy. In 1834 the Senate, controlled by the new opposition Whig Party led by Jackson’s old nemeses Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, rejected a slew of Jackson’s nominees for office, including Taney, and adopted an unprecedented (and still unparalleled) resolution of censure against Jackson himself. Jackson returned a scathing protest, which the Senate rejected. Meanwhile the administration struggled to implement its “experiment” of conducting government finances through state banks.Throughout the year Jackson pursued his aim of compelling eastern Indians to remove west of the Mississippi. In May the Chickasaws signed a removal treaty. But brazen frauds complicated the administration’s scheme to induce individual Creeks to emigrate from Alabama, while the Cherokees, led by Principal Chief John Ross, stood fast in resistance. In June some unauthorized dissident Cherokees signed a removal treaty, but it died in the Senate.In 1834 Jackson continued his longstanding effort to pry the province of Texas loose from Mexico, while the U.S. hurtled toward confrontation with France over French failure to pay an indemnity due under an 1831 treaty. Other matters engaging Jackson included corruption scandals in the Post Office Department and at Mississippi land offices, fractious disputes over rank and seniority among Army and Navy officers, and a fire that gutted Jackson’s Hermitage home in Tennessee. Unfolding these stories and many more, this volume offers a revelatory window into Andrew Jackson, his presidency, and America itself in 1834.

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Book SynopsisWomen as Global Leaders is the second volume in the new Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice book series published for the International Leadership Association by IAP. Global leadership is an emerging area of research, with only a small but growing published literature base. More specifically, the topic of women’s advances and adventures in leading within the global context is barely covered in the existing leadership literature. Although few women are serving in global leadership roles in corporate and non-profit arenas, and as heads of nations, that number is growing (e.g., Indira Nooyi at PepsiCo, Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia, Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany).The purpose of this volume is to provide the reader with current conceptualizations and theory related to women as global leaders, recent empirical investigations of the phenomenon, analysis of effective global leadership development programs, and portraits of women who lead, or have led, in a global role. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section covers the state of women as global leaders, containing chapters by Joyce Osland and Nancy Adler, pioneers in the field of global and/or women’s leadership. The second section describes approaches to women’s global leadership. The third section offers an analysis of programs that are useful in developing women as global leaders, with the final section profiling women as global leaders, including Margaret Thatcher, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousfazai, and Golda Meir. As Barbara Kellerman noted in the Foreword, “this book...should be understood as a collection whose time has come, precisely because women now have opportunities to lead that are far more expansive than they were even in the recent past. Though their numbers remain low, they are able in some cases to exercise leadership not only as outsiders, but also as insiders, from the very positions of power and authority to which men forever have had access.”

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Book SynopsisWomen as Global Leaders is the second volume in the new Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice book series published for the International Leadership Association by IAP. Global leadership is an emerging area of research, with only a small but growing published literature base. More specifically, the topic of women’s advances and adventures in leading within the global context is barely covered in the existing leadership literature. Although few women are serving in global leadership roles in corporate and non-profit arenas, and as heads of nations, that number is growing (e.g., Indira Nooyi at PepsiCo, Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia, Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany).The purpose of this volume is to provide the reader with current conceptualizations and theory related to women as global leaders, recent empirical investigations of the phenomenon, analysis of effective global leadership development programs, and portraits of women who lead, or have led, in a global role. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section covers the state of women as global leaders, containing chapters by Joyce Osland and Nancy Adler, pioneers in the field of global and/or women’s leadership. The second section describes approaches to women’s global leadership. The third section offers an analysis of programs that are useful in developing women as global leaders, with the final section profiling women as global leaders, including Margaret Thatcher, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousfazai, and Golda Meir. As Barbara Kellerman noted in the Foreword, “this book...should be understood as a collection whose time has come, precisely because women now have opportunities to lead that are far more expansive than they were even in the recent past. Though their numbers remain low, they are able in some cases to exercise leadership not only as outsiders, but also as insiders, from the very positions of power and authority to which men forever have had access.”

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Book SynopsisIn the moments before his weekly radio address hit the airwaves in 1984, Ronald Reagan made an off-the-record joke: 'I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.' As reports of the stunt leaked to the press, many Americans did not find themselves laughing along with the president. Long a fervent warrior against what he termed the 'Evil Empire,' by the mid-1980s, Reagan confronted growing domestic opposition to his revival of the Cold War. While numerous histories of the era have glorified the 'Decade of Greed,' historian Andrew Hunt instead explores the period's robust political and cultural dissent.We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes focuses on a striking array of protest movements that took up issues such as the nuclear arms race, U.S. intervention in Central America, and American investments in South Africa. Hunt's new history of the eighties investigates how film, television, and other facets of popular culture critiqued Washington's Cold War policies and reveals that activists and cultural rebels alike posed a more meaningful challenge to the Cold War's excesses than their predecessors in the McCarthy era.

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Book SynopsisThe New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today and demonstrates how a “volcanic, camera-hogging antihero” merged with America’s most powerful medium to become the forty-fifth president. He charts the seismic evolution of television from a monolithic mass medium of mainstream networks into today’s fractious media subculture. He then examines Donald Trump, who took advantage of these changes to reinvent himself: from boastful cartoon zillionaire; to 1990s self-parodic sitcom fixture; to The Apprentice-reality-TV star to Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue. A trenchant, often hilarious work, Audience of One provides an eye-opening history of American media and a reflection of a raucous, “gorillas-are always-fighting” culture.Trade Review"The Mueller Report of television criticism! James Poniewozik’s Audience of One is both damning and illuminating, a witty, penetrating exposé of Trump’s most intimate relationship, the one with the medium that made him." -- Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker"With wit, insight, and clarity, James Poniewozik puts Trump at the center of a series of changes that swept through American popular culture and political systems. Poniewozik’s essential book shows how these evolutions incubated Trumpism, even as Trump’s rise exposed the limits and vulnerabilities of the media, which too often found itself floundering in the face of his shameless manipulations." -- Maureen Ryan, chief TV critic for Variety"Illuminating... Poniewozik is a funny, acerbic and observant writer… [He] uses his ample comedic gifts in the service of describing a slow-boil tragedy. If humor is the rocket of his ICBM, the last three years of our lives are the destructive payload... Poniewozik brings a new microscope with which to analyze the drug-resistant bacterium that is our president. Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Audience of One is that it makes Trump's presidency seem almost inevitable." -- Gary Shteyngart - The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe United States has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the idea that state-building can make the world “safe for democracy” but the return on that investment has been woeful. Witnessing this failure, many observers hold the view that investment in undemocratic countries should halt. Yet ignoring these troubled countries risks our safety. Drawing on his formidable foreign policy experience, Steve Krasner explains that eliminating corruption or holding free and fair elections is often not possible today in many parts of the world but negotiated compromises and halting large-scale theft is. Better security and some economic growth are possible everywhere. How to Make Love to a Despot defines a new and pragmatic American foreign policy vision that quells terrorism and leads to “good governance” around the globe.Trade Review"One doesn't have to agree with Krasner's conclusions to see the value in this book. It is tightly argued and thought-provoking and a must read—even for those who believe that support for democracy should remain a cornerstone of American foreign policy." -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

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Book SynopsisAmerican First Ladies is a testament to the visible role that first ladies have played in U.S. government, as well as the expanding interest in women's achievements from the birth of the country to the present time.This fourth edition of American First Ladies is a testament to the increasingly visible role that First Ladies have played throughout history. Similar to its companion volume, American Presidents, this updated work contains comprehensive essays on every first lady from Martha Washington to Jill Biden. Each biographical essay includes the following detailed sections: Early Life; Marriage and Family; Presidency and First Ladyship; and Legacy.Each chapter features anecdotal sidebars about the President and First Lady, an Annotated Suggested Reading, and more than 100 photographs and drawings appear throughout the work. American First Ladies also contains a detailed Introduction, Chronological List of vital information on each First Lady, Chronological list of Presidents, Libraries, Museums, Historic Sites, Bibliography, and Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the nearly 250 years since its inception, the U.S. presidency has survived controversy, scandal, resignation, civil war, impeachment, and assassination. Every individual who has assumed the title of president has left a mark, for good or ill, on American history. This fifth edition of American Presidents examines the strengths and weaknesses, the successes and failures of each chief executive, from George Washington to Joe Biden.Following a detailed Introduction, each chapter presents a comprehensive portrait of each president, from birth to political rise to election, term(s) in office, defeat or retirement, and death. Topical subheadings help guide readers through the material. The legacy of each administration is measured against the yardstick of U.S. history, and the evolution of the office and country can be traced clearly. More than 250 photos, and excerpts from famous presidential speeches, punctuate this richly detailed edition.Every in-depth essay ends with an annotated Suggested Reading. The set also includes a reprint of the U.S. Constitution, detailed Timeline, Official Election Results, Cabinet Members, Executive Departments and Offices, list of First Ladies, Presidential Libraries, Museums and Historic Sites, Bibliography, and Subject Index.

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Book Synopsis Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will discomfort both Truman’s critics and his supporters, and force historians to reexamine what they think they know about the end of the Pacific War.Myth: Truman didn’t know of the atomic bomb’s development before he became president. Fact: Truman’s knowledge of the bomb is revealed in his own carefully worded letters to a Senate colleague and specifically discussed in the correspondence between the army officers assigned to his Senate investigating committee.Myth: The huge casualty estimates cited by Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson were a postwar creation devised to hide their guilt for killing thousands of defenseless civilians. Fact: The flagrantly misrepresented “low” numbers are based on narrow slices of highly qualified—and limited—U.S. Army projections printed in a variety of briefing documents and are not from the actual invasion planning against Japan.Myth: Truman wanted to defeat Japan without any assistance from the Soviet Union and to freeze the USSR out of the postwar settlements. Fact: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Truman desperately wanted Stalin’s involvement in the bloody endgame of World War II and worked diligently—and successfully—toward that end. Using previously unpublished material, D. M. Giangreco busts these myths and more. An award-winning historian and expert on Truman, Giangreco is perfectly situated to debunk the many deep-rooted falsehoods about the roles played by American, Soviet, and Japanese leaders during the end of the World War II in the Pacific. Truman and the Bomb, a concise yet comprehensive study of Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb, will prove to be a classic for studying presidential politics and influence on atomic warfare and its military and diplomatic components. Making this book particularly valuable for professors and students as well as for military, diplomatic, and presidential historians and history buffs are extensive primary source materials, including the planned U.S. naval and air operations in support of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. These documents support Giangreco’s arguments while enabling the reader to enter the mindsets of Truman and his administration as well as the war’s key Allied participants. Trade Review"Giangreco's close analysis of these documents is thought-provoking, and makes a strong case that Truman believed dropping the bomb would save lives. Readers will come away with new insights into a world-changing event."—Publishers Weekly"Truman and the Bomb is relevant to today's national security professionals. Giangreco delivers a highly readable account that touches on the political and military aspects of a key presidential decision during war. This momentous decision during World War II is still felt today."—Clayton K. S. Chun, Parameters"Giangreco is a most able and indefatigable military historian who has made important contributions to the long-running debate over the use of the atomic bombs in August 1945."—Wilson D. Miscamble, Missouri Historical Review“D. M. Giangreco’s sweeping critique of revisionist interpretations of President Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan is certain to stir renewed controversy. Giangreco vividly recreates the passion and emotion of the summer of 1945 in a first-rate account of the decision to use the weapon and the postwar historiography surrounding its use. Relying on documentary evidence, he highlights the stark difference between accuracy and opinion in historical writing.”—Edward J. Drea, author of Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall“Those who continue to cling to the belief that there was another way forward than dropping the atomic bombs, and who wish to retain their intellectual integrity, must read this book. D. M. Giangreco continues to lean on the stake driven through the heart of obsolete arguments from the 1960s antiwar movement, popular culture, and 1980s antinuclear academia that continue to reach out from the grave today.”—Sean M. Maloney, author of Emergency War Plan: The American Doomsday Machine, 1945–1960“[D. M. Giangreco has] demolished the claim that President Truman’s high casualty estimates were a postwar invention.”—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.“Dennis Giangreco has rendered obsolete most of what has been written on the subject.”—Robert James Maddox, professor emeritus of history at Pennsylvania State University and author of key books and articles on the history of the atomic bomb and American foreign policyTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword John T. Kuehn Prologue: The Debate 1. The Manhattan Project: What Did Truman Know and When Did He Know It? 2. Projects Milepost and Hula: America’s Hidden Role in the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria 3. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Poland: The Tehran, Moscow, and Yalta Conferences 4. A New President: “The Storm Broke Almost at Once” 5. Truman’s White House Meeting: “My Hardest Decision” 6. “I’ve Gotten What I Came For”: Potsdam, the Bomb, and Soviet Entry into the War Appendixes A. Air-Raid Casualties and Property Damage in Japan B. Memorandum on Ending the Japanese War C. The Historiography of Hiroshima: The Rise and Fall of Revisionism Michael Kort D. The Manhattan Project: A Chronology of Its Expansion and Subsequent Congressional Investigations E. “Between You, the Boss [Truman], and Me” F. Secretary of War Henry Stimson to Truman on Atom Bomb Development G. U.S. Navy Combatant Ships under Project Hula H. Agreement regarding the Entry of the Soviet Union into the War against Japan I. Secretary Stimson’s Proposed Program for Japan J. Proposal for Increasing the Scope of Casualties Studies K. Discussion of American Casualties at President Truman’s Meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Service Secretaries, June 18, 1945 L. General Thomas Handy’s Atomic Bomb Authorization M. Atomic Bomb Press Release N. Potsdam Declaration, July 26, 1945 O. Truman-Stalin Meeting at Potsdam P. Tripartite Military Meeting of the U.S., Soviet, and British Chiefs of Staff, July 26, 1945 Q. Planned U.S. Naval and Air Operations in Support of the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria R. Extract from the Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference, July 18, 1945 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisYoung American Foreign Service officers are accustomed to being teased by friends and relatives as to what they do in the “Foreign Legion” or the “Forest Service.” In the United States, unlike in many countries, the role of a professional diplomat is little known or understood. In A Professional Foreigner Edward Marks describes his life as an American diplomat who served during the last four decades of the twentieth century, from 1959 to 2001. Serving primarily in Africa and Asia, Marks was present during the era of decolonization in Africa (but always seemed to be at the opposite end of the continent from the hottest developments), was intimately involved in the early days of the U.S. government’s antiterrorism programs, observed the unfolding of a nasty and tragic ethnic conflict in one of the most charming countries in the world, and saw the end of the Cold War at UN headquarters in New York. Along the way Marks served as the U.S. ambassador to two African nations. In this memoir Marks depicts a Foreign Service officer’s daily life, providing insight into the profession itself and what it was like to play a role in the steady stream of history, in a world of quotidian events often out of the view of the media and the attention of the world. Marks’s stories—such as rescuing an American citizen from a house of ill repute in Mexico and the attempt to recruit mongooses for drug intervention in Sri Lanka—are both entertaining and instructive on the work of diplomats and their contributions to the American story. Trade Review“Edward Marks’s highly engaging and poignant memoir is also a valuable primer on the profession and art of diplomacy and the inner workings of institutions such as the U.S. State Department, the military, and the United Nations. Marks’s memoir is a paean to the golden age of diplomacy and multilateralism. . . . [Readers] will come away with admiration for his modesty, quiet humor, and commitment to service and to creating a better world.”—Milinda Moragoda, high commissioner of Sri Lanka to India, founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, and former cabinet minister in Sri Lanka“Edward Marks’s literate memoir of four decades practicing diplomacy in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America is highly readable—as well as fun. A sharp observer of social and political behavior, he shows how the contrasting characters of European colonizers left lasting effects on their former colonies. . . . Highly recommended.”—William Harrop, former U.S. ambassador“A relatively small corps of several thousand American Foreign Service officers . . . promote and defend U.S. interests every day of the year as diplomats based in American embassies, consulates, and missions in every country in the world. How they carry out their responsibilities, and how they meet the many challenges that arise, constitutes a fascinating story. After a long and varied career in diplomacy, Edward Marks relates that story with sharp insights and nonstop amusement.”—Herman J. Cohen, former assistant secretary of state for African Affairs“Edward Marks takes us to the diplomatic coalface––the ‘workaday life of the American Foreign Service Officer.’ His main tools are observation, listening, and putting the results into language that bosses back home can understand. This is your handbook on what diplomacy is all about. . . . In a feast of anecdotes, you can smell the atmosphere in downtown Bissau, Luanda, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, and Nairobi––‘small Foreign Service posts . . . on the periphery of mainstream diplomacy,’ much more interesting than Paris, Moscow, or Beijing.”—Robert Cox, former European Union official and occasional diplomat“A seasoned diplomat’s memoir adds to our knowledge of practice, appealing to readers across countries. . . . The hallmark of Marks’s writing is his gentle humor, cloaking his passion.”—Kishan S. Rana, former ambassador, Indian Foreign ServiceTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Taking the Oath 2. About Diplomats 3. Apprenticeship 4. Nairobi, Nuevo Laredo, Luanda 5. Zambia 6. The Belgian World 7. Guinea-Bissau 8. Guinea-Bissau Politics and Economics 9. Cape Verde 10. Fort McNair 11. Colombo 12. The Diplomatic Village 13. Ethnic Strife in the “Blessed Isle” 14. Winding Up 15. Turtle Bay 16. Washington Entr’actes 17. Three Years before the Mast Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisThe ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books, his important relationship with the Western state, both before and during the war—the part it played in bringing on the great conflict and the help it gave him in winning it—have been little described and imperfectly understood. In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between the president and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincoln’s lifetime. He includes the histories of Lincoln’s close friends and personal acquaintances who made history as they went to California, lived there, and helped to keep it part of the imperiled Union. McGinty demonstrates that California was in large part responsible for beginning the Civil War, as the principal purpose of its conquest in the Mexican War was to acquire land into which the Southern states could extend their cotton-growing and slaveholding empire. The decision of California’s first voters to exclude slavery from the state but to enact virulently racist legislation encouraged Southerners’ hope that, if they established a separate republic, it would become an independent slave nation with the power to extend its territory to the Pacific coast of North America and into the Caribbean and Latin America. Lincoln’s opposition to their plans unleashed the Civil War. As the struggle played out, however, the hopes of the proslavery Confederates were ultimately defeated because California played a vital role in helping Lincoln save the Union. Lincoln and California shines new light on an important state, a pivotal president, and a turning point in American history. Trade Review"Brian McGinty's informative survey of the many Civil War-era connections between the Golden State and the nation's 16th president effectively combines content and approachability."—Civil War Books and Authors blog"McGinty's book is a fine read and undoubtedly makes important contributions to the body of Lincoln scholarship. . . . Lincoln aficionados should welcome this work into their collections."—Derek Maxfield, Emerging Civil WarPraise for Brian McGinty’s Archy Lee’s Struggle for Freedom “Brian McGinty is an enormously talented storyteller and historian. He has a journalist’s sense of how to ferret out facts and stories and weave them together.”—Paul Finkelman, noted scholar of American legal history and Rydell Visiting Professor at Gustavus Adolphus CollegePraise for Brian McGinty’s Lincoln’s Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America “Accomplished legal historian Brian McGinty has provided the definitive account of a crucial episode in Abraham Lincoln’s career as an attorney. . . . Anyone seeking to better understand the origins of the growing tensions between political parties in mid-nineteenth-century America will find this book absolutely essential.”—Harold Holzer, prize-winning Lincoln scholar and distinguished authorPraise for Brian McGinty’s Lincoln’s Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America “Of the 5,000-plus cases in which attorney Abraham Lincoln participated, none had more national significance than the one that Brian McGinty ably describes and analyzes in this highly readable volume. Based on thorough research, McGinty not only sheds a bright light on Lincoln’s contribution to the defense of the bridge company but also places the story within the larger context of American economic, social, and military history.”—Michael Burlingame, noted Lincoln scholar and president of the Abraham Lincoln AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. April 14, 1865 2. A Western Free State Man 3. Honest Old Abe 4. California’s Future 5. The War Begins 6. The First Californian 7. The Office Seekers 8. The Judges 9. Destiny’s Land 10. Gold, Silver, and Greenbacks 11. The Native Peoples 12. The War Continues 13. Letters from Washington 14. The View from Lone Mountain 15. What Was Remembered Chronology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership. With a continued top-down approach to educational policy and practice, it is imperative that educational leaders understand how critical race theory and praxis can assist them in utilizing their agency and roles as leaders to identify and challenge institutional and systemic racism and other forms/manifestations of oppression (Stovall, 2004). In the tradition of critical race theory, we are charged with the task of operationalizing theory into practice in the struggle for, and commitment to, social justice. Though educational leaders and leadership programs have been all but absent in this process, given their influence and power, educational leaders need to be engaged in this endeavor.The objective of this edited volume is to draw upon critical race counter-stories and praxis for the purpose of providing leaders in training and practicing K-12 leaders with tangible narratives that demonstrate how racism and its intersectionality with other forms of oppression manifest within K-12 schooling. An additional aim of this book is to provide leaders with a working knowledge of the central tenets of critical race theory and the tools that are required in recognizing how they might be complicit in the reproduction of institutional and systemic racism and other forms of oppression. More precisely, this edited volume intends to draw upon and center the lived experiences and voices of contributors that have experienced racism in K-12 schooling. Through the use of critical race methodology and counter-storytelling (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002), contributors will share and interrogate their experiences while offering current and future educational leaders insight in recognizing how racism functions within institutions and how they can address it. The intended goal of this edited volume is to translate critical race theory into practice while emphasizing the need for educational leaders to develop a critical race praxis and anti-racist approach to leadership.

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Book SynopsisWhile critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership. With a continued top-down approach to educational policy and practice, it is imperative that educational leaders understand how critical race theory and praxis can assist them in utilizing their agency and roles as leaders to identify and challenge institutional and systemic racism and other forms/manifestations of oppression (Stovall, 2004). In the tradition of critical race theory, we are charged with the task of operationalizing theory into practice in the struggle for, and commitment to, social justice. Though educational leaders and leadership programs have been all but absent in this process, given their influence and power, educational leaders need to be engaged in this endeavor.The objective of this edited volume is to draw upon critical race counter-stories and praxis for the purpose of providing leaders in training and practicing K-12 leaders with tangible narratives that demonstrate how racism and its intersectionality with other forms of oppression manifest within K-12 schooling. An additional aim of this book is to provide leaders with a working knowledge of the central tenets of critical race theory and the tools that are required in recognizing how they might be complicit in the reproduction of institutional and systemic racism and other forms of oppression. More precisely, this edited volume intends to draw upon and center the lived experiences and voices of contributors that have experienced racism in K-12 schooling. Through the use of critical race methodology and counter-storytelling (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002), contributors will share and interrogate their experiences while offering current and future educational leaders insight in recognizing how racism functions within institutions and how they can address it. The intended goal of this edited volume is to translate critical race theory into practice while emphasizing the need for educational leaders to develop a critical race praxis and anti-racist approach to leadership.

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Book SynopsisNikki Haley has been widely hailed as an emerging force in American politics, her star power burnished over a decade that has seen her move from the national spotlight to the global stage. In Rising Star, political scientist Jason A. Kirk analyzes her ascendance in the Republican party, from her governorship of South Carolina as a woman of color—where she faced extraordinary challenges in a state reckoning with tragedy, race, and its own history—to her elevated profile as Donald Trump’s representative to the United Nations, where as the daughter of immigrants she would become the face of his America First policy to the world. This book, in its consideration of a wide range of perspectives, illuminates how Haley’s combination of political talents and her identity as an Indian American, Christian, southern woman have made her an unlikely bridge between the Trump years and the GOP’s embattled path forward, and, by all accounts, a significant political force.

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Book SynopsisWhat does a person need to learn before they can survive as the vice president under a tumultuous administration? How do you continue to honor the laws and the constitution of the country in the face of increasingly vitriolic partisan politics? Mike Pence's vice presidency of the United States wasn't always easy. To some, he is the personification of American conservative values, but to others, his ideals are the epitome of prejudice and bigotry. In Pence: The Path to Power, journalist Andrea Neal showcases how the vice president arrived at this position of influence. Neal interviews friends, family, staff, former teachers, and politicians on both sides of the aisle to reveal a multifaceted view of the self-described Christian, Conservative, and Republican–in that order–from his beginnings in a large Irish Catholic family in Columbus, Indiana, through the scandals of his first election, to his time beside Donald Trump. This candid look at Mike Pence's life exposes his unexpected path to power and the individuals who influenced him along the way.Trade ReviewPolitical junkies will learn some new facts and stories about Pence and gain a historical perspective missing for even those who were in the middle of the political action. . . . Neal sticks to the facts, yet in a way that yields insights and perspective. * Indianapolis Star *What one gets from Neal's work is a greater sense of who Pence is, not just what he is. Few public figures are as outspoken and consistent in char- acter, while remaining truly enigmatic to the people whom they serve. -- Laura Merrifield Wilson * Indiana Magazine of History *The result is a look at Mike Pence's rise to prominence that is as close as we will get to his view of his climb until he writes his own memoirs. * NUVO *A good overview of the path the politically ambitious Pence took to get to his current position. * USA Today *Balancing out these two highly divergent portraits, Pence: The Path to Power by Andrea Neal—based on interviews with Pence's family, friends, staff, and other politicians, both allies and foes—paints a more nuanced picture. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisAmerica's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as a lawyer in Illinois. In fact, Lincoln toured some amazing places throughout the Midwest in his lifetime. In Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's Favorite President, Jane Simon Ammeson will help you step back into history by visiting the sites where Lincoln lived and visited. This fun and entertaining travel guide includes the stories behind the quintessential Lincoln sites, while also taking you off the beaten path to fascinating and lesser-known historical places. Visit the Log Inn in Warrenton, Indiana (now the oldest restaurant in the state), where Lincoln stayed in 1844 when he was campaigning for Henry Clay. Or visit key places in Lincoln's life, like the home of merchant Colonel Jones, who allowed a young Abe to read all his books, or Ward's Academy, where Mary Todd Lincoln attended school. Along with both famous and overlooked places with Lincoln connections, Ammeson profiles nearby attractions to round out your trip, like Holiday World, a family-owned amusement park that goes well with a trip to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln State Park. Featuring new and exciting Lincoln tales from Springfield, Illinois; Beardstown, Kentucky; Booneville, Indiana; Alton, Illinois; and many more, Lincoln Road Trip is a fun adventure through America's heartland that will bring Lincoln's incredible story to life.Table of ContentsPrologue1. In the Beginning: The Lincoln Heritage2. Bardstown & Bourbon3. Athens of the West: Lexington Belle4. Southeastern Indiana Trails5. Southwestern Indiana: Life in Little Pigeon Creek6. A River Runs Through It: Lincoln in Illinois7. Other Places Along the Way8. Endings

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Book SynopsisAmerica's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as a lawyer in Illinois. In fact, Lincoln toured some amazing places throughout the Midwest in his lifetime. In Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America's Favorite President, Jane Simon Ammeson will help you step back into history by visiting the sites where Lincoln lived and visited. This fun and entertaining travel guide includes the stories behind the quintessential Lincoln sites, while also taking you off the beaten path to fascinating and lesser-known historical places. Visit the Log Inn in Warrenton, Indiana (now the oldest restaurant in the state), where Lincoln stayed in 1844 when he was campaigning for Henry Clay. Or visit key places in Lincoln's life, like the home of merchant Colonel Jones, who allowed a young Abe to read all his books, or Ward's Academy, where Mary Todd Lincoln attended school. Along with both famous and overlooked places with Lincoln connections, Ammeson profiles nearby attractions to round out your trip, like Holiday World, a family-owned amusement park that goes well with a trip to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln State Park. Featuring new and exciting Lincoln tales from Springfield, Illinois; Beardstown, Kentucky; Booneville, Indiana; Alton, Illinois; and many more, Lincoln Road Trip is a fun adventure through America's heartland that will bring Lincoln's incredible story to life.Table of ContentsPrologue1. In the Beginning: The Lincoln Heritage2. Bardstown & Bourbon3. Athens of the West: Lexington Belle4. Southeastern Indiana Trails5. Southwestern Indiana: Life in Little Pigeon Creek6. A River Runs Through It: Lincoln in Illinois7. Other Places Along the Way8. Endings

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Book SynopsisBorn in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government and dramatics and an MA in international relations and American government from Northeastern University. She built a career devoted largely to public health that has included positions at Lehman Brothers, Pfizer, and the National Research Council. After her first marriage ended in divorce, she married Joe Lieberman, a US senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president with Al Gore and would go on to run for president. In Hadassah, Lieberman pens the compelling story of her extraordinary life: from her family's experience in Eastern Europe to their move to Gardner, Massachusetts; forging her career; experiencing divorce; and, following her remarriage, her life on the national political stage. By offering insight into her identity as an immigrant, an American Jew, a working woman, and a wife, mother, and grandmother, Lieberman’s moving memoir speaks to many of the major issues of our time, from immigration to gender politics. Featuring an introduction by Joe Lieberman and an afterword by Megan McCain, it is a true American story.Trade Review“Lieberman’s new memoir is a candid, thoughtful, and moving account of her journey from war-shattered Czechoslovakia to the heights of US politics. Its pages capture Hadassah’s love of family, respect for tradition, and deep devotion to her adopted country. As a fellow immigrant, I am glad she is sharing her story of pursuing, and achieving, the American dream.” -- Madeleine K Albright“Hadassah’s story resonates with all immigrants regardless of where they came from or when. Her beautifully written memoir is moving and inspirational. It will make you cry; it will make you laugh. It is a uniquely American story and her journey is now a part of our history.” -- Elaine L Chao, former US Secretary of Labor“Drawing on both her personal and familial experiences, Lieberman has written a moving and insightful memoir that speaks on the nature of faith, the importance of personal history, and the individual commitment that democracy requires.” -- Henry A Kissinger“Lieberman’s story is an American dream. A child of Holocaust survivors and a committed Jew, she became a witness to the topmost reaches of American political life, almost becoming the ‘Second Lady’ of the United States. It was an unbelievable saga, and she takes the reader along with her as she looks back on that journey.” -- Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University“My work in search of the tragic fate of Ukrainian Jews, as well as other victims of the Nazi war machine, has been sobering. Nonetheless, it is important to continue with this effort, to learn what we can, to listen to survivor testimony, and to bear witness. This is exactly what Lieberman has marvelously done in her amazing and moving book recounting her family’s experiences during the Second World War. A book for young generations to read, to stay awake and to stay strong!” -- Father Patrick Desbois, founder and president of Yahad-In Unum and author of The Holocaust by Bullets"Lieberman has a unique story to share…Intriguing…Moving." * Kirkus Reviews *"Whether writing about marriage, motherhood, illness, being on the campaign trail or an official visit to the concentration camps, Lieberman expresses herself with honesty, dignity, heart and wisdom." * Jewish Journal *"An opportunity for [Lieberman] to honor her parents and to tell her story of light that had originated from darkness." * Cleveland Jewish News *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter One. Momuch, Chapter Two. Daddy, Chapter Three. My Immigrant Identity, Chapter Four. Leaving Gardner, Chapter Five. Remarriage, Motherhood and Meaning, Chapter Six. Living in the Spotlight, Chapter Seven. A Stone from Auschwitz, Chapter Eight. Election 2000, Chapter Nine. Gratitude

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Book Synopsis'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his 1949-1966 record-breaking second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent their congratulations and grievances and commented on speeches they had heard on radio. They lectured him, quoted Shakespeare and the Bible at him and sent advice on how to eliminate the rabbit problem. In Dear Prime Minister, Menzies' fabled 'Forgotten People' write back.Revealed here for the first time, the letters respond to the royal visit of 1954, Communism, Australia's British connection and the dire poverty of aged pensioners. For many writers, these were not post-war boom years, but a time of anxiety and conflict, punctuated by fears of war, another Great Depression, or a nuclear Armageddon. Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians.

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Book SynopsisPolitical Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness of how hard the biography could hit. Political Lives is a result of that fraught experience. In it Wallace reflects on the roles and motives of biographers and their biographies in the 20th century.To discover who wrote biographies, and why, Wallace interviewed every living 20th century prime minister and their biographer, from Menzies to Hawke, Whitlam to Keating. The result is an intimate history of Australian national politics.

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Book SynopsisAs a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, the daughters begin to understand the source of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit.In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely forgotten or unacknowledged women who, threatened with imprisonment for treason and sedition, relentlessly and selflessly gave toward the revolution.Table of ContentsPrefaceA Note on Forms of Address1 Dislocations2 Many Homes3 No Easy Path4 Meeting Babu5 City of Conquests6 Battlegrounds7 Departures8 Crossing Thresholds9 Letting GoEpilogueWriting Amma’s StoryAcknowledgementsList of Interviews

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Book Synopsis‘The silence of the cell is less disturbing than the deliberate silence of the human beings who come and go. I know that it is part of the process, designed to break my morale, but that doesn’t make it any easier. I calculate that I am speaking less than twenty words a day, and begin to wonder whether my vocal chords will dry up and wither if this goes on … I have never been very talkative, but now I begin to hunger after talk more strongly than for either food or drink.’Lionel ‘Rusty’ Bernstein was arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, on 11 July 1963 and tried for sabotage, alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and other leaders of the African National Congress and Umkhonto we Sizwe in what came to be known as the Rivonia Trial. He was acquitted in June 1964, but was immediately rearrested. After being released on bail, he fl ed with his wife Hilda into exile, followed soon afterwards by their family. This classic text, fi rst published in 1999, is a remarkable man’s personal memoir of a life in South African resistance politics from the late 1930s to the 1960s. In recalling the events in which he participated, and the way in which the apartheid regime affected the lives of those involved in the opposition movements, Rusty Bernstein provides valuable insights into the social and political history of the era.Trade ReviewThe memory so eloquently contained in this book tells especially the younger generations of South Africans who live in freedom that they should never forget that, indeed, that freedom was not free.' - Thabo Mbeki, anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa, 1994–2008Table of Contents Foreword (by Thabo Mbeki) The Rivonia Trial Attorney Remembers (by Lord Joel Joffe) Prologue 1. Starting Blocks 2. Time at the Crossroads 3. A Foot in Each Camp 4. Across the Divide 5. Spoils of War 6. Warning Winds 7. A Line in the Sand 8. Goodbye to All That 9. Overground – Underground 10. To Speak of Freedom 11. Power, Treason and Plot 12. Cracking the Fortress Wall 13. Exercise Behind Bars 14. To Put Up or Shut Up 15. Things Fall Apart 16. To Sit in Solemn Silence 17. In a Deep Dark Dock 18. Telling It As It Was 19. In A Closing Net 20. Over, and Out Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA complex mix of attitudes, traits, motives, skills, capabilities, styles and mental mindsets contributes to entrepreneurial leadership. The current volume brings together perspectives from leading scholars in the entrepreneurship and management disciplines that inform our understanding of the nature of, requirements for, and implications resulting from entrepreneurial leadership. This important book is organized into eight key leadership imperatives: igniting entrepreneurial action; establishing entrepreneurial control; understanding entrepreneurial motivation; encouraging entrepreneurial ethics; formulating entrepreneurial strategy; dealing with entrepreneurial failure; creating entrepreneurial environments and demonstrating leadership and vision. This collection will serve as a vital reference for scholars, teachers and doctoral students who wish to read and examine the most significant literature in the entrepreneurial leadership domain.Trade Review‘Kuratko and Morris provide an insightful and compelling compilation of the factors and forces that shape entrepreneurial leaders and that directly impact their ability to start, build and lead their ventures.’ Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Donald F. Kuratko and Michael H. Morris PART I IGNITING ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION 1. Donald F. Kuratko (2009), ‘The Entrepreneurial Imperative of the 21st Century’ 2. Jeffery S. McMullen and Dean A. Shepherd (2006), ‘Entrepreneurial Action and the Role of Uncertainty in the Theory of the Entrepreneur’ 3. Keith M. Hmieleski and Andrew C. Corbett (2008), ‘The Contrasting Interaction Effects of Improvisational Behavior with Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy on New Venture Performance and Entrepreneur Work Satisfaction’ 4. Jeffrey S. Hornsby, Donald F. Kuratko, Dean A. Shepherd and Jennifer P. Bott (2009), ‘Managers' Corporate Entrepreneurial Actions: Examining Perception and Position’ 5. R. Duane Ireland, Michael A. Hitt, S. Michael Camp and Donald L. Sexton (2001), ‘Integrating Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Actions to Create Firm Wealth’ 6. Donald F. Kuratko, Jeffrey G. Covin and Robert P. Garrett (2009), ‘Corporate Venturing: Insights from Actual Performance’ 7. Donald F. Kuratko, R. Duane Ireland and Jeffrey S. Hornsby (2001), ‘Improving Firm Performance through Entrepreneurial Actions: Acordia’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Strategy’ PART II ESTABLISHING ENTREPRENEURIAL CONTROL 8. John C. Goodale, Donald F. Kuratko, Jeffrey S. Hornsby and Jeffrey G. Covin (2011), ‘Operations Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Effect of Operations Control on the Antecedents of Corporate Entrepreneurial Activity in Relation to Innovation Performance’ 9. Michael H. Morris, Jeffrey Allen, Minet Schindehutte and Ramon Avila (2006), ‘Balanced Management Control Systems as a Mechanism for Achieving Corporate Entrepreneurship’ 10. Antonio Davila, George Foster and Daniel Oyon (2005), ‘Accounting and Control, Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Venturing into New Research Opportunities’ 11. John C. Goodale, Donald F. Kuratko and Jeffrey S. Hornsby (2008), ‘Influence Factors for Operational Control and Compensation in Professional Service Firms’ 12. Antonio Davila and George Foster (2007), ‘Management Control Systems in Early-Stage Startup Companies’ 13. Michael A. Hitt, Robert E. Hoskinsson, Richard A. Johnson and Douglas D. Moesel (1996), ‘The Market for Corporate Control and Firm Innovation’ 14. Michael H. Morris, Jurie van Vuuren, Jeffrey R. Cornwall and Retha Scheepers (2009), ‘Properties of Balance: A Pendulum Effect in Corporate Entrepreneurship’ PART III UNDERSTANDING ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATION 15. Melissa S. Cardon, Joakim Wincent, Jagdip Sing and Mateja Drnovsek (2009), ‘The Nature and Experience of Entrepreneurial Passion’ 16. Michael H. Morris, Donald F. Kuratko, Minet Schindehutte and April J. Spivnack (2012), ‘Framing the Entrepreneurial Experience’ 17. Christopher J. Collins, Paul J. Hanges and Edwin A. Locke (2004), ‘The Relationship of Achievement Motivation to Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Meta-Analysis’ 18. Donald F. Kuratko, R. Duane Ireland, Jeffrey G. Covin and Jeffrey S. Hornsby (2005), ‘A Model of Middle-Level Managers’ Entrepreneurial Behavior’ 19. Alan Carsrud and Malin Brännback (2011), ‘Entrepreneurial Motivations: What Do We Still Need to Know?’ 20. Zeki Simsek, Ciaran Heavey and John (Jack) F. Veiga (2010), ‘The Impact of CEO Core Self-Evaluation on the Firm’s Entrepreneurial Orientation’ 21. Maw-Der Foo (2011), ‘Emotions and Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation’ PART IV ENCOURAGING ENTREPRENEURIAL ETHICS 22. Michael H. Morris, Minet Schindehutte, John Walton and Jeffrey Allen (2002), ‘The Ethical Context of Entrepreneurship: Proposing and Testing a Developmental Framework’ 23. Morgan P. Miles, Linda S. Munilla and Jeffrey G. Covin (2004), ‘Innovation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship’ 24. Donald F. Kuratko and Michael G. Goldsby (2004), ‘Corporate Entrepreneurs or Rogue Middle Managers? A Framework for Ethical Corporate Entrepreneurship’ 25. Jeremy Hall and Philip Rosson (2006), ‘The Impact of Technological Turbulence on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Social Norms and Ethics: Three Internet-based Cases’ 26. Gita Surie and Allan Ashley (2008), ‘Integrating Pragmatism and Ethics in Entrepreneurial Leadership for Sustainable Value Creation’ 27. Melissa S. Baucus, William I. Norton, Jr., David A. Baucus and Sherrie E. Human (2008), ‘Fostering Creativity and Innovation without Encouraging Unethical Behavior’ PART V FORMULATING ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGY 28. Jan Brinckmann, Dietmar Grichnik and Diana Kapsa (2010), ‘Should Entrepreneurs Plan or Just Storm the Castle? A Meta-Analysis on Contextual Factors Impacting the Business Planning – Performance Relationship in Small Firms’ 29. Bárbara Larrañeta, Shaker A. Zahra and José Luis Galán González (2012), ‘Enriching Strategic Variety In New Ventures Through External Knowledge’ 30. Marc Gruber (2007), ‘Uncovering the Value of Planning in New Venture Creation: A Process and Contingency Perspective’ 31. R. Duane Ireland, Jeffrey G. Covin and Donald F. Kuratko (2009), ‘Conceptualizing Corporate Entrepreneurship Strategy’ 32. Yasemin Y. Kor (2003), ‘Experience-Based Top Management Team Competence and Sustained Growth’ 33. Mark Kroll, Bruce A. Walters and Son A. Le (2003), ‘The Impact of Board Composition and Top Management Team Ownership Structure on Post-IPO Performance in Young Entrepreneurial Firms’ PART VI DEALING WITH ENTREPRENEURIAL FAILURE 34. Dean A. Shepherd (2003), ‘Learning from Business Failure: Propositions of Grief Recovery for the Self-Employed’ 35. Jason Cope (2011), ‘Entrepreneurial Learning from Failure: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis’ 36. Rita Gunther McGrath (1999), ‘Falling Forward: Real Options Reasoning and Entrepreneurial Failure’ 37. Melissa S. Cardon, Christopher E. Stevens and D. Ryland Potter (2011), ‘Misfortunes or Mistakes? Cultural Sensemaking of Entrepreneurial Failure’ 38. Dean A. Shepherd, Jeffrey G. Covin and Donald F. Kuratko (2009), ‘Project Failure from Corporate Entrepreneurship: Managing the Grief Process’ 39. Ashish Arora and Anand Nandkumar (2011), ‘Cash-Out or Flameout! Opportunity Cost and Entrepreneurial Strategy: Theory, and Evidence from the Information Security Industry’ 40. Robert Cressy (2006), ‘Why do Most Firms Die Young?’ PART VII CREATING ENTREPRENEURIAL ENVIRONMENTS 41. Patrick M. Kreiser, Louis D. Marino, Pat Dickson and K. Mark Weaver (2010), ‘Cultural Influences on Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Impact of National Culture on Risk Taking and Proactiveness in SMEs’ 42. Dominic S.K. Lim, Eric A. Morse, Ronald K. Mitchell and Kristie K. Seawright (2010), ‘Institutional Environment and Entrepreneurial Cognitions: A Comparative Business Systems Perspective’ 43. Jeffrey S. Hornsby, Donald F. Kuratko and Shaker A. Zahra (2002), ‘Middle Managers’ Perception of the Internal Environment for Corporate Entrepreneurship: Assessing a Measurement Scale’ 44. Linda Edelman and Helena Yli-Renko (2010), ‘The Impact of Environment and Entrepreneurial Perceptions on Venture-Creation Efforts: Bridging the Discovery and Creation Views of Entrepreneurship’ 45. Jesper B. Sørensen (2007), ‘Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry’ 46. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Nathan R. Furr and Christopher B. Bingham (2010), ‘Microfoundations of Performance: Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility in Dynamic Environments’ 47. R. Duane Ireland, Donald F. Kuratko and Michael H. Morris (2006), ‘A Health Audit for Corporate Entrepreneurship: Innovation at all Levels: Part I’ PART VIII DEMONSTRATING LEADERSHIP AND VISION 48. Vipin Gupta, Ian C. MacMillan and Gita Surie (2004), ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership: Developing and Measuring a Cross-Cultural Construct’ 49. Javier Gimeno, Timothy B. Folta, Arnold C. Cooper and Carolyn Y. Woo (1997), ‘Survival of the Fittest? Entrepreneurial Human Capital and the Persistence of Underperforming Firms’ 50. J. Michael Haynie, Dean A. Shepherd, Elaine Mosakowski and P. Christopher Earley (2010), ‘A Situated Metacognitive Model of the Entrepreneurial Mindset’ 51. Saras D. Sarasvathy (2001), ‘Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency’ 52. Shaker A. Zahra (2008), ‘The Virtuous Cycle of Discovery and Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities’ 53. Catherine M. Daily, Patricia P. McDougall, Jeffrey G. Covin and Dan R. Dalton, (2002) ‘Governance and Strategic Leadership in Entrepreneurial Firms’

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Book SynopsisThis enriching book explores a theoretical gap in international relations and the role of leader ambition. It presents the idea that some leaders transcend political constraints and as a result, they fundamentally reshape their domestic polity while introducing change to the international system.Mark Menaldo revisits what is a fundamental question in the study of international politics: the role of statesmanship in foreign affairs. He critiques prevailing realist, rational choice, and personality theories of international relations for conceiving of leadership too narrowly. This book introduces the novel theory of transformative ambition, the idea that some leaders transcend domestic and international political constraints and, as a result, fundamentally reshape their domestic polity while introducing change to the international system. Drawing on Aristotle's idea of magnanimity and Niccolò Machiavelli's lessons to princes through his examples of great founders, the author shows how leaders throughout time accomplish great goals through the force of their vision, character, and practice of statesmanship. Case studies include Otto Von Bismarck, Latin America's autocrats, Woodrow Wilson, Charles de Gaulle, and Pericles.Providing a critique of international relations theory and a critical examination of how leaders with transformative ambition change domestic and international politics, this book will appeal to leadership, politics and international relations academics and students.Contents: Introduction 1. Realism and Ambition: Otto von Bismarck Reconsidered 2. The Strategic Perspective of Leadership: Ambition as Political Survival 3. Personality and Political Ambition 4. Transformational Leadership: A Theoretical Critique 5. Aristotle's Idea of Magnanimity and Transformative Ambition 6. Pericles' Transformative Ambition (1): Regime Politics and Character 7. Pericles' Transformative Ambition (2): Democracy, Empire, and the Peloponnesian War Conclusion References IndexTrade Review Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Realism and Ambition: Otto von Bismarck Reconsidered 2. The Strategic Perspective of Leadership: Ambition as Political Survival 3. Personality and Political Ambition 4. Transformational Leadership: A Theoretical Critique 5. Aristotle’s Idea of Magnanimity and Transformative Ambition 6. Pericles’ Transformative Ambition (1): Regime Politics and Character 7. Pericles’ Transformative Ambition (2): Democracy, Empire, and the Peloponnesian War Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn leadership research there is a long tradition of focusing attention on the great and successful leaders and, more recently, on issues of good governance. This study breaks new ground by looking systematically into the manifestations and causes of poor leadership and bad governance in some of the world's most powerful democracies. Focusing on the presidents and prime ministers of the G8 - the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan - it explores the complex relationship between weak and ineffective leadership, undemocratic leadership techniques, and bad policies from a broad comparative perspective. What makes leaders weak or bad in different contexts? What are the consequences of their actions and behavior? And has there been any learning from negative experience? These questions are at the center of this fascinating joint inquiry that involves a team of truly distinguished leadership scholars. This book will prove invaluable for scholars and students of leadership, political science, contemporary history, and related academic disciplines. Readers with a general interest in public affairs and political history will also find plenty to interest them. Contributors: J. Gaffney, L. Helms, E.S. Krauss, J. Malloy, G. Pasquino, G. Peele, R. Pekkanen, B.A. Rockman, R. SakwaTrade ReviewLeadership and the lack of it is a central but underexplored issue in the study of contemporary politics. Ludger Helms is to be congratulated for bringing together a group of leading scholars to examine the relationship between leadership and governance. --William E. Paterson OBE, Aston Centre for Europe, UKA comparative look at bad policies, undemocratic aspects of leadership, and the question of what makes a leader weak in different contexts, Poor Leadership and Bad Governance is an invaluable contribution to modern political science shelves. . . Highly recommended. --Midwest Book ReviewLeaders are not always heroes. Bad public leadership is a big problem. If we are serious about holding our public leaders to account, then we need to know why they were bad, and why we supported them. Ludger Helms and his distinguished team tackle these difficult questions with sympathy, not cynicism. Their careful and insightful analysis alerts us to the dangers of venal and poorly performing leaders. --R.A.W. Rhodes, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Conceptual Perspectives and Questions for Comparative Inquiry Ludger Helms 2. In the Grip of Context: American Presidents and their Choices Bert A. Rockman 3. Not Necessarily Leadership But Leadership if Necessary: Canadian Prime Ministers and the Management of Expectations Jonathan Malloy 4. The United Kingdom: Prime Ministerial Leadership and the Challenge of Governance Gillian Peele 5. Presidents Behaving Badly: Poor Leadership and Bad Governance in France John Gaffney 6. Revisiting the German Chancellorship: Leadership Weakness and Democratic Autocracy in the Federal Republic Ludger Helms 7. Italy: Goodness, Badness, and the Trajectories of Mediocrity Gianfranco Pasquino 8. Leadership, Governance and Statecraft in Russia Richard Sakwa 9. Profiles in Discourage: Prime Ministerial Leadership in Post-war Japan Ellis S. Krauss and Robert Pekkanen 10. Conclusion Ludger Helms Index

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Book SynopsisWhat do such disparate events as Occupy Wall Street, Iran's Islamic revolution and Venezuela's socialist revolution have in common? Often, resentment based on past grievances or shortcomings seems to emerge from the depths of individual and collective psyches over the course of such emotionally charged movements. This resentment, and the related philosophical concept of ressentiment, can have a profound impact on the course of history and on the role of leadership within societies. Expanding on the concept of ressentiment, this book addresses the importance of emotions in historical events. The author explores the conditions that foster the development of ressentiment, the role of leaders and followers, and the phases of the phenomenon as it encourages destructive behaviors such as murder and suicide. Often considered an incurable disease with destructive social and political repercussions, it is a core motive for acts of terrorism, revolutions, social upheavals and processes of toxic leadership. The author puts forth a model that helps to describe certain historical processes led by ressentiment, like some revolutions and terrorist acts, and to distinguish them from other movements that are usually treated as similar (e.g., independence revolutions). The book then tackles a seemingly impossible question: Can we find a cure for this powerful and destructive impulse? With care and deliberation, the author demonstrates the power of ethical leadership, recognition and redemption as positive unifying forces during human conflicts. A philosophical endeavor to understand events from the Boston Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, from the French revolution to Hugo Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this book will be fascinating reading for scholars and students of the social sciences and humanities and those with a particular interest in leadership.Table of ContentsContents: Preface by Joanne B. Ciulla Introduction 1. The Problem 2. The Passion 3. The Psychological Disease 4. The Social Characteristic 5. The Struggle for Power: The Revolt 6. Leadership by Ressentiment 7. Nihilism and Terrorism 8. A Case Study: Venezuela 1992–2011 9. Redemption Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPolitical trust - of citizens in government, parliament or political parties - has been centre stage in political science for more than half a century, reflecting ongoing concerns about the legitimacy of representative democracy. This Handbook offers the first truly global perspective on political trust and integrates the conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and empirical state of the art. An impressive, international body of expert scholars explore established and new venues of research, by taking stock of levels, trends, explanations and implications of political trust, and relating them to regional particularities across the globe. Along with a wealth of genuine empirical analyses, this Handbook also features the latest developments in personality, cognitive and emotional research and discusses, not only the relevance, but also the 'dark side' of political trust. Discerning yet accessible, this Handbook provides scholars, students and policy makers with the tools to navigate through a complexity of theories, trends, causes and consequences of political trust, whilst also directing their future research.Contributors include: R. Andeweg, M. Bargsted, D.-G. Barton, É. Bélanger, D. Canache, J.C. Castillo, F. Cavatorta, R.J. Dalton, C.C. Eckel, O.W. Gabriel, M. Grimes, A. Hakhverdian, A. Haugsgjerd, M. Hayes, M.L. Hutchison, K. Johnson, S. Kumlin, C. Liu, S. Marien, Q. Mayne, L. McLaren, J.J. Mondak, J. Muñoz, K. Newton, P. Norris, C.-M. Park, P. Rivetti, T.J. Rudolph, N.M. Somma, D. Stolle, E. Theiss-Morse, J. Thomassen, M. Torcal, E.M. Uslaner, T.W.G. van der Meer, J.W. van Deth, C. van Ham, M.E. Warren, R.K. Wilson, G. Závecz, S. ZmerliTrade Review'This Handbook offers a comprehensive account of what is currently known about political trust. In 29 chapters a stellar cast of 41 authors informs about the concept, its measurement, and correlates. In addition, they document empirically the development and distribution of political trust across the globe in different political settings. This volume is a ''must read'' for all those interested in political trust as a major resource for the political community, the political regime, and the political authorities.' --Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Social Science Research Center Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Deeply Rooted Concern with Political Trust Tom W.G. van der Meer, Sonja Zmerli PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES 2. The Conceptual Framework of Political Support Pippa Norris 3. What Kinds of Trust Does a Democracy Need? Trust from the Perspective of Democratic Theory Mark E. Warren 4. Functions of Political Trust in Authoritarian Settings Paola Rivetti and Francesco Cavatorta 5. Political Trust and Multilevel Government Jordi Muñoz 6. The Measurement Equivalence of Political Trust Sofie Marien 7. Objects of Political and Social Trust: Scales and Hierarchies Sonja Zmerli and Ken Newton 8. Political Trust in Experimental Designs Rick K. Wilson and Catherine C. Eckel PART II CAUSES, CORRELATES, CONSEQUENCES Micro Level 9. Biological and Psychological Influences on Political Trust Jeffery J. Mondak, Matthew Hayes and Damarys Canache 10. Emotion, Cognition, and Political Trust Elizabeth Theiss-Morse and Dona-Gene Barton 11. Education, Socialization, and Political Trust Quinton Mayne and Armen Hakhverdian 12. Political Trust as a Heuristic Thomas J. Rudolph 13. Compliance, Trust, and Norms of Citizenship Jan W. Van Deth 14. Participation and Political Trust Oscar W. Gabriel 15. Political Trust and Voting Behaviour Eric Bélanger Meso and Macro Level 16. Procedural Fairness and Political Trust Marcia Grimes 17. Democratic Input, Macro-Economic Output, and Political Trust Tom W.G. Van Der Meer 18. The Welfare State and Political Trust: Bringing Performance Back in Staffan Kumlin and Atle Haugsgjerd 19. Political Trust, Corruption, and Inequality Eric M. Uslaner 20. Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Political Trust Lauren Mclaren 21. Social Capital, Civic Culture and Political Trust Christopher Liu and Dietlind Stolle 22. Political Trust and the Mass Media Ken Newton PART III POLITICAL TRUST ACROSS THE GLOBE 23. Political Trust in North America Russell J. Dalton 24. Political Trust in Latin America Matías Bargsted, Nicolás M. Somma and Juan Carlos Castillo 25. Political Trust in Western and Southern Europe Mariano Torcal 26. Post-Communist Societies of Central and Eastern Europe Gergõ Závecz 27. Political Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab Region Marc L. Hutchison and Kristin Johnson 28. Political Trust in the Asia-Pacific Region Chong-Min Park 29. Political Trust and the Decline of Legitimacy Debate: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation into their Interrelationship Jacques Thomassen, Rudy Andeweg and Carolien Van Ham Index

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Book SynopsisWhy have multitudes of followers throughout history become attracted to leaders who demand sacrifice, campaigns of war or other adventures with unpredictable outcomes? Why do they command such powerful control over their followers? Madness and Leadership studies leaders and followers from social, cultural, and biological perspectives and explores aspects of their personalities that induce them to assume their respective roles.It proposes that leadership and followership are evolutionary adaptations, developed to enhance survival and group cohesion; that leaders possess certain biologically derived personality traits which set them apart and alert followers, consciously or unconsciously, of their status. Important factors that enhance leader emergence have been linked through evolution and are constituents of all societies, past and present. Within political theories and historical examples, this book carries the discussion on leadership into a new direction by suggesting that mild psychopathology is one of its central components.This pioneering multidisciplinary exploration of mental illness and leadership will give readers a better understanding of leadership phenomena, with a critical approach explaining why time and again followers choose leaders with psychological shortcomings. Papacostas's biopsychosocial perspective will appeal to social scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, historians, and scholars and academics of leadership studies.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introductory Remarks about Leaders and Leadership 2. Genes, Behavior, and the Human Speciation Event 3. Paranoia and Historical Interpretation 4. Social Deviance and the Limits of Tolerance 5. The Role of Language in Defining Normal Behavior 6. Abnormal Behavior 7. Politics and Mental Illness 8. Psychotic Disorders and Paranoia 9. Society and its Leaders 10. Postscript – A Personal Note References Index

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Book SynopsisWhile liberal-representative democracies tend to conform to a consensus-based post-political paradigm where there is no space for alternatives and dissensus; new forms of democracy in practice are emerging from below. This book explores new socially innovative initiatives that have appeared following the 2011 global uprisings. Initiatives that flourish not only as alternative responses to current social needs but also as new forms of democracy, a democracy that comes from below, by and for the 'have-nots'. Combining theories of social innovation and collective leadership, this book analyses how disadvantaged communities have addressed the effects of economic recession in two global cities: Barcelona and New York. It draws upon several socially innovative initiatives in four neighbourhoods, and offers new knowledge, ideas and tools, both to better understand how social needs could be effectively and democratically satisfied, and to foster social change initiatives at the community level. Civic capacity and democratic leadership practices emerge as crucial factors to make social change happen. The book advances both theoretical and empirical understandings of social change and will appeal to scholars in urban studies, geography, leadership studies, political science and sociology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, policy makers and leaders in social organizations, as it provides ideas and tools to help foster social change.Trade Review'In this book the authors disentangle why some social innovations work in the most vulnerable and disenfranchised neighbourhoods. From a leadership perspective, what becomes evident is that no one person galvanizes a neighborhood; rather, progress often comes about through social collective practices and agency. Furthermore, as the authors point out, democratic change arises from below, for and by the ''have-nots.'' Readers are treated both to insightful theory-building, particularly using constructionist insight, and to in-depth application, through four well-documented case studies.' --Joe Raelin, Northeastern University, US'Since the 1970s cities have been inundated by socio-economic crises: the reinstitution of urban unevenness was accelerated by the first oil crisis, the deregulation of labour markets, privatization of prosperous and equity-generating public activities, financial and mortgage-related catastrophes, environmental injustices in the built environment, and so forth. For decades citizens in the most affected urban neighbourhoods have fought back against these ordeals. In their book, Marc Pares, Sonia M. Ospina and Joan Subirats critically explore these urban struggles. The authors demonstrate how socially innovative collective practices emerging from below, become powerful socio-political movements capable of transforming market democracy into people-centred and bottom-linked democracy.' --Frank Moulaert, University of Leuven, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Introduction and overview PART I - SOCIAL INNOVATION AGAINST THE CRISIS: FRAMING OUR RESEARCH 1. Social innovation and relational leadership: opening up new perspectives on social change 2. Geographies of crisis: comparing the United States and Europe through New York and Barcelona PART II - THEORIZING SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD FEATURES AND LEADERSHIP 3. Neighbourhood resilience, civic capacity and historical-geographical context 4. Democratic leadership: the work of leadership for social change PART III - COMMUNITIES ENGAGED IN SOCIAL CHANGE: ANALYSING SOCIAL INNOVATION FROM BELOW 5. Bushwick: emerging innovations in a dramatically gentrified neighbourhood 6. South Bronx: a whole community fighting social exclusion 7. Nou Barris Nord: community resistance in a highly vulnerable context 8. Sants: seeking autonomous self-management from below 9. Learning from socially innovative initiatives and leadership practices Index

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Book SynopsisFor decades, the writings of James MacGregor Burns have defined the central issues in our understanding of leadership. Their impact is illustrated here through ten chapters exploring Burns' research on presidential leadership and related issues of moral and effective leadership, the nature of social change and transformation, and the subtleties of the relationships between leaders and followers. Exploring history through the dynamics of leadership, this extraordinary volume outlines the dynamics of social change and transformation and illustrates how leaders shape followers' motivations. The transactional and transforming leadership of various US presidents are considered within broader questions of personal ethics, conflict and compromise, and historical contingency. The presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson in particular transformed American society and American politics. The essays in this book explore the several ways they fought for enduring human values using power resources that aroused and satisfied deep human motives and tested the limits of leadership effectiveness and morality.Students of leadership, the US Presidency, the American founding, and history more generally will find this book enlightening. Scholars and leaders in business, psychology and philosophy with also find much of value given James MacGregor Burns's insightful analysis across a wide field of disciplines.Contributors include: S.T. Allison, D. Bradburn, J.B. Ciulla, R.A. Couto, T.E. Cronin, G.R. Goethals, G.R. Hickman, E.J. Larso, G. Sorenson, P. SperoTrade Review'This is an excellent collection that critically engages with the tremendous legacy of an outstanding leadership scholar. The editors have brought together world-class writers from various disciplinary backgrounds, all of whom knew Jim Burns personally and have been significantly influenced by his ideas. The result is a volume that provides a definitive statement on Burns' key ideas on politics, ethics and change. I thoroughly recommend this text to anyone interested in the potential of leadership to transform relationships, organizations and societies. It is a fitting testament and a must-read.' --David Collinson, Lancaster University Management School, UK'James MacGregor Burns was a giant in the study of leadership, and his influence on the study of leadership endures. This volume includes contributions by a number of scholars, each of whom was inspired by Burns' seminal work, but also worked directly or indirectly with Jim on the study of leadership. This book expands on the work of Burns, gives us insight into his creative genius, and moves the study of leadership significantly forward.' --Ronald E. Riggio, Claremont McKenna CollegeTable of ContentsContents: Foreword. Joseph J. Ellis Acknowledgement George R. Goethals and Douglas Bradburn Introduction George R. Goethals Part I. James MacGregor Burns and the Essentials of Leadership 1. Discovering Leadership in the Early Republic, Patrick Spero 2. Leadership without Leaders, Followers, or Causality: Tribute and Tribulation for the Intellectual Legacy of James MacGregor Burns Richard A. Couto 3. Real, Intended Change: Business Movements? Gill Robinson Hickman 4. Transforming Motives and Mentors: The Heroic Leadership of James MacGregor Burns George R. Goethals and Scott T. Allison 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Adultery and the Ethics of Presidential Leadership Joanne B. Ciulla Part II. James MacGregor Burns and American Leadership 6. “A People Unused to Restraint Must be Led, They Will not be Drove:” The Rebels and Their Leaders in the American Revolution Douglas Bradburn 7. James MacGregor Burns and the American Presidency Thomas E. Cronin 8. Transactional Leadership in a Transformative Election: An Essay in Honor of James MacGregor Burns Edward J. Larson 9. James MacGregor Burns’s Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox and the Election of 1940 Susan Dunn 10. Theory and Practice: James MacGregor Burns Georgia Sorenson Epilogue Jim Burns, Thomas E. Cronin Index

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Book SynopsisLeadership and the Unmasking of Authenticity presents a philosophic treatment of the core concept of authentic leadership theory, with a view toward illuminating how authors in the history of philosophy have understood authenticity as an ideal for humanity. Such an approach requires a broader view of the historical origins of authenticity and the examination of related ideas such as self-knowledge and deception. The chapters of this volume illuminate the conflict between the contemporary understanding of authenticity and traditional philosophy by revisiting the ideas of thinkers who express self-knowledge as a cornerstone of their philosophy. Tracing the origins of our contemporary concern for authenticity to the writings of 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this book explores the key thinkers writing in the wake of Rousseau?s emphasis on sincerity, namely Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, to show that their acceptance of authenticity as an ideal for humanity was ambiguous at best. This volume also covers representative authors in the earlier history of philosophy, such as Plato, Niccolò Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, and John Locke. The result is a keen, in-depth analysis of works of philosophy and political philosophy that broach questions of authenticity, self-knowledge, and deception.This critical contribution to authentic leadership theory and the theory of authenticity will be a key resource for both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of leadership studies, political science and philosophy.Contributors include: J.C. Byham, B.E. Cusher, E.A. Dolgoy, J. Fortier, N.W. Harter, M.A. Menaldo, H. Pedersen, J.M. WarnerTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Brent Edwin Cusher and Mark A. Menaldo 1. The Lie in the Soul: Authenticity, Hypocrisy, and Self-Deception in Rousseau John M. Warner 2. Authenticity and the Motives for Political Leadership: Reflections from Nietzsche’s Zarathustra Jeremy Fortier 3. Heidegger on Authenticity: The Prospect of Owning One’s Existence Hans Pedersen 4. Different Purposes, Different Lives: Socrates’ Twofold Presentation of His Activity in Plato’s Apology of Socrates Brent Edwin Cusher 5. Leadership and the Virtue of Deception in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince Mark A. Menaldo 6. The Politics of Dissimulation: Francis Bacon, Self-Knowledge, and the Art of Lies Erin A. Dolgoy 7. Authenticity or Reasonableness? A Lockean View of Leadership Jack C. Byham 8. Teaching Leadership Students to Lie Nathan W. Harter Index

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Book Synopsis'As the author of a new book, Professionalizing Leadership, in which I take on the leadership industry, specifically the often careless and casual way in which we profess to teach how to lead, it gives me particular pleasure to highly recommend Teaching Leadership by Perruci and Hall. Though it's possible to take issue with some specifics, to anyone with any interest in leadership as pedagogical practice, especially but not exclusively at the undergraduate level, I say this book is not to be missed.'- Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, US and author of, among others, The End of Leadership, Followership, and Bad Leadership'This book is a must read for educators and students who want to master the fine art of developing leaders and becoming leaders.'- Prasad Kaipa, Kaipa Group, US'Teaching Leadership takes the reader from leadership traits to leadership transformation, and models the pedagogy it professes. Those of us who bridge theory and practice on a daily basis will find the historical, theoretical, and philosophical context in which leadership education, training and development are defined an invaluable prism through which we better understand the why, what and how of leadership. While this book comes close to being the canon we incessantly seek, the authors intentionally avoid this. Instead, they present an integrated complexity of information with glorious clarity. The coalescence of scientific knowledge, philosophical grounding, intentionality, reflection, preparation, thoroughness, program design and evaluation on which Teaching Leadership is based, is a benchmark for best practice in teaching and forming leadership.'- Katherine Tyler Scott, Ki ThoughtBridge LLC, USCan we really teach leadership? Yes, we can, and this book provides innovative ways of doing so. It is designed to help educators contribute to their learners? leadership development by expanding and enhancing their knowledge and competencies through a study of theory, practice and experiential learning. We need effective leaders at all levels of society. The more educators do to prepare leaders to make a positive difference, the better off the world will be. Educators can adjust, adopt, and adapt concrete examples provided in this book to fit their own organizations? needs. The authors explore time-tested efforts at linking leadership theory and practice in ways that promote meaningful leadership development for our learners. Starting from ''?why?'' and ''?what?'' about leadership, the book progresses to ''?how?'' to organize teaching leadership. It emphasizes lessons learned as a result of decades of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of nationally recognized leadership programs. Each chapter includes reflection questions that allow educators to consider how the content is relevant or can be applied to their own institutional context.Teaching Leadership is written for educators and practitioners in undergraduate and graduate-level leadership programs, in professional schools, in technical institutes, and in government institutions, as well as for those working in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.Trade Review'Perruci and Hall affirm and delve deeper into the question, ''Can leadership be taught?'' by providing an understanding of leadership concepts conjoined with the ''why'' it is important to teach leadership and a framework for the ''how'' to go about it. In its wealth of examples, insights and suggestions every reader will find ideas of genuine value. Teaching Leadership is readily accessible, but solidly grounded in the rigor of theory and the relevance of practice.' --Cynthia Cherrey, International Leadership Association'Perruci and Hall have produced an essential guidebook for faculty members who are involved in leadership education. Drawing on decades of experience educating leaders, they approach teaching leadership from an interdisciplinary perspective, one that balances curricular and co-curricular methodologies, and provides the knowledge and tools necessary for a full and dynamic program of leadership education.' --Ronald E. Riggio, Claremont McKenna College, US'Teaching Leadership is a great resource for academics interested in making positional and informal leaders more effective in dealing with wicked problems in the complex and challenging world we live in. Grounded in leadership for now, this book takes in centuries of human reflection on what constitutes a good leader and breaks it down in teachable steps to ensure all have access to tools to create great positive impact for a better world. Teaching leadership ensures there are no excuses to justify the ineptitude of our leaders in action!' --Eliane Ubalijoro, McGill University, Canada and C.L.E.A.R. International Development incTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: Facilitating Student Learning by Susan R. Komives Introduction PART I TEACHING ABOUT LEADERSHIP 1. Teaching Leadership 2. The Interdisciplinary Nature of Leadership Education 3. Developing a Leadership Curriculum 4. The ‘Smart’ Classroom PART II BUILDING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND COMPETENCY 5. The Learning Environment 6. Program Conceptualization and Development 7. Planning Effective Sessions: Strategies, Tools, and Logistics 8. Program Assessment and Evaluation PART III GROWING AS A LEADER 9. Leadership Development 10. Supporting Personal and Professional Growth 11. Leadership Programming for Personal Growth 12. Concluding Thoughts on Teaching Leadership Index

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Book SynopsisAddressing the unprecedented challenges facing public leaders brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, this comprehensive Research Handbook reframes the public leadership debate by offering new ways of thinking about leadership practices. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars across the world, this insightful Research Handbook illustrates how the decisions made by global leaders today will have widespread consequences for future generations. Chapters evaluate innovative leadership models including cooperative leadership and spiritual leadership, analyse international perspectives on leadership in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and discuss the role of public leadership in practice. Exploring important contemporary case studies including the issues of county lines in the UK and public leadership in the Small Island States of the Anglophone Caribbean (SIDS), it concludes by advocating for a new post-pandemic paradigm of public leadership. Focusing on learning from the practices and experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars in business management, economics, public leadership, and public policy and politics. It will also be beneficial for civil servants, politicians, and leadership practitioners in healthcare, education, and non-public sectors.Trade Review‘The single most important critical success factor I have encountered across policing and public sector service is leadership. This is borne out by the organisations that excel and those which fail. However we lead in a rapidly changing world where public services face multiple and overlapping crises, and leadership must evolve to adapt to this C21st context. The research book, edited by Stephen Brookes, is contemporary in its context and looks forward to what will succeed in the future as well as reflecting upon the lessons of the past. It will energise and provoke the thoughts of the most experienced leader as well as providing a deep well of knowledge for the newest leaders ambitious to do their best to make a positive difference to our society.’ -- Andy Marsh, College of Policing, England and WalesTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AS A NEW THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR LEADING PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC 1 The challenges of leading in the public interest: a new paradigm for public leadership in a post-pandemic world? 1 Stephen Brookes 2 Creating a new leadership model: cooperative leadership 23 Neil McLennan 3 Spiritual leadership: a new paradigm for a new normal 42 Jillian McCarthy 4 Reflections on the response to COVID-19: considerations for managers and leaders 57 Ayham Fattoum 5 Challenges for school leadership and management in the four nations of the United Kingdom during the pandemic: conceptual shifts and implications for future thinking 80 Lorna Hamilton, Gary Beauchamp, Moira Hulme, Janet A. Harvey and Linda Clarke 6 Relational leadership for leading public services in the interests of the public 97 Joyce Liddle and Gareth Addidle 7 Public leadership in tackling wicked problems: is it a crisis of leadership or a leadership crisis? 113 Lawrence Benson and Stephen Brookes PART II INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE 8 Police leadership in wicked times: how Norwegian police leaders have experienced and responded to the Covid-19 pandemic 135 Rune Glomseth 9 The healthcare system in Saudi Arabia: evolution, transformation and the COVID-19 experience 154 Sami Yousif and Omar Bawhab 10 Public leadership of Covid-19: documentary analysis of the role of the Mayor’s Office in shaping policy responses in Bogotá, Colombia 178 Simon Turner, Sebastian L. Schorch, Dennys Paola Fernandez and Nicolás García 11 Assessing the efficacy of COVID-19 policies in the Philippines: an analysis on the NPM-based approach to pandemics 196 Chris Lim PART III PUBLIC LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE: THE ‘GOOD’, THE ‘BAD’ AND THE ‘DOWNRIGHT UGLY’ OF PUBLIC LEADERSHIP 12 Reframing ‘place leadership’: an analysis of leadership in responding to the wicked issue of county lines and criminality within a context of post-pandemic public health policing 222 Joyce Liddle and Gareth Addidle 13 The role of consequential leadership in public crises through multi-agency response 243 Umer Khan and Stephen Brookes 14 Organisational obstinacy: a case study from a large UK metropolitan authority that provides a new model of paradigm change 262 Nick Clifford and David Horsler 15 Public leadership in the small island developing states of the Anglophone Caribbean 285 Damian E. Greaves 16 Towards a collective public leadership manifesto: opportunities and challenges in a post-pandemic paradigm 307 Stephen Brookes Appreciative Inquiry Crown Sonnet 321 Ada Jo Mann Index

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World addresses post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in Haiti. Working through an archive of black politics, The Unfinished Revolution examines the charged upheaval that Haiti’s arrival caused in the Atlantic world. Salt revisits this site of contestation in order to critically reflect on the ways that brokers from Haiti and across the Atlantic responded to the political existence of a nation forged from the fires of revolution and consistently racialized as black by other nation-states. These sovereign bodies—who Salt argues took their political cues regarding who can be sovereign from the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)—struggled to accept the existence of the independent nation-state of Haiti. Examining Haiti through the lens of blackness and sovereignty, Salt produces an original and compelling account of the challenges and constraints Haiti has encountered in fighting for its continued political existence. Assembling a wide range of materials—from photographs, newspaper articles, letters, diplomatic documents, essays and objects—Salt produces a cogent and nuanced book that moves beyond the revolutionary period of Haiti’s history in order to argue that Haiti remains in the midst of an unfinished revolution over its sovereignty.Trade Review'The Unfinished Revolution offers a relevant look at post-independence Haiti. Readers will appreciate the host of figures and events Salt presents along with her thoughtful discussions of these "transnational representatives." The work will appeal to students and scholars interested in reflecting on what sovereignty means for a black nation during the Atlantic world period and beyond.' Yveline Alexis, H-LatAmTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION/ Sovereignty and PowerONE/ Games of Sovereignty and OpportunityTWO/ Selling Citizenship, Recognising Blood, Stabilising SovereigntyTHREE/ Burlesquing Empire: Performing Black Sovereignty on the World StageFOUR/ Welcome to the New World Order: Haiti and Black Sovereignty at the Turn of the CenturyFIVE/ Sovereignty Under Seige? Contemporary Performances of Black Sovereignty

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Book SynopsisThinking Differently about Leadership asks why and how we have come to understand leadership in the way we now do, and the consequences which arise from these understandings. Its critical interrogation of Classical Greek, Medieval and modern social scientific ideas reveals that troubling assumptions and problematic expectations are key features of leadership theorizing both in the past and today. By tracing developments in leadership thought over time, this book reveals the influence of ideas from the past on current thinking, inviting reflection on what we now seek from leaders and followers. Its unique, multi-faceted analysis identifies non-scientific factors which have profoundly influenced the development of leadership science in the modern era. Arguing that conventional understandings of leadership today are deeply problematic, the book examines why we ought to think differently about leadership and offers an approach for so doing. The book offers a framework for leadership theory-building which readers can use to apply to their own context, making it an ideal resource for critical management and leadership scholars as well as students and practitioners who will value its novel focus and perspective.Trade Review'The field of leadership studies is generally characterised as one that is in a state of late adolescence. This ambitious book shows compellingly that the field has a considerably lengthier and richer pedigree. We need to recognise, prioritise and instill a historical appreciation into our teaching and our research of leadership in the critically reflexive and genuinely inter-disciplinary manner that the author models so brilliantly in this wonderfully original book.' --Brad Jackson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'Much leadership writing seems to suggest that only those with super powers can be effective leaders and that, whatever the problem, leadership is the answer. Suze Wilson comprehensively demolishes both these fallacies, and does so in captivating style. In highlighting such issues as context, power and history she offers stimulating new perspectives on how we can rethink leadership - and do it better.' --Dennis Tourish, University of London, UK'Have no doubt about it; there has never been a more appropriate time for scholars and educators in management and leadership studies to read Suze Wilson's Thinking Differently about Leadership: A Critical History of Leadership Studies. In the aftermath of the events of 2016, including, inter alia, 'Brexit', the US presidential election and the ongoing crisis in Syria, we have both a professional and civic duty to engage in discourse about our understanding and expectations of leadership. Wilson's book provides an important resource in this respect.' --Management LearningTable of ContentsContents: 1. Why Leadership? 2. Questioning Leadership Knowledge 3. The Classical Greek Truth about Leadership 4. The 16th Century European Truth about Leadership 5. The Foundations of Leadership ‘Science’: Carlyle and the Trait Theorists 6. Our modern Era of Leadership ‘Science’ 7. Change and Continuity in the Truth about Leadership 8. Conclusion and Future Trajectories Index

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and extended second edition of the groundbreaking Rethinking Leadership builds on Donna Ladkin's entirely new approach to understanding leadership as a lived experience rather than a checklist of traits or behaviors. Alongside selected expert contributors, the author makes complex ideas accessible by illustrating them with practical examples drawn from a broad experience of both academic leadership and management across a range of commercial, political and not-for-profit organizations. New chapters explore the lived experience of women leaders, how leaders might make responsible judgments, how power works within leadership relations, how business leadership differs from political leadership, and the need for leaders to be more 'human'. Featuring up-to-date examples of how its ideas can be applied, the book offers a way to engage with the complexity and unpredictability of leadership as a phenomenon, at a time when effective, wise leadership is needed more than ever. Leadership scholars and doctoral level students will benefit from this book's novel philosophical perspective on leadership theorizing. Its discussion of a variety of accessible case studies that illustrate key ideas will also prove useful to all postgraduate leadership students. Contributors: R.A. Gardiner, D. Ladkin, C. O'Neill, P. Salovaara, T. SwitzerTrade Review'I once met a man who had travelled halfway around the world with a small bag and one book: Rethinking Leadership. This is a book that takes you to new places in yourself and in the world. Key features of this latest edition include: a refined leadership model that emphasises context; current case studies and compelling contributions from leadership experts. Beautifully written in a warm, relatable way, with complex philosophies made accessible, you will rediscover the thrill of learning, reflecting and practicing leadership.' --Chellie Spiller, University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand'This book will be highly beneficial to any reader. Most notably, it provides an understanding of the philosophical foundation of ethics and morality in leadership to practitioners, who rarely have the time to dig into journals or papers that provide insights into that groundwork. The book fills this void as it covers the underpinning of ethical decision-making and thus helps a leader to confront and manage the 21st century's increasing challenges and disruptions.' --Roland Bardy, BardyConsult Management Training and former director at BASF SE, Germany'With many of us deeply disillusioned, asking do we need leadership at all and how have we got so captive of its corrupted forms, more than ever we need the rethinking posed in this book. Ladkin and her colleagues take us on a radically different journey around leadership, drawing on continental philosophy and especially phenomenology to ask deeper questions about what leadership is, why it matters, and how to imbue our understandings with less hype, more moral integrity and humanity.' --Amanda Sinclair, Melbourne Business School, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why study leadership from a philosophical perspective? Donna Ladkin 2. Why are there so many different theories of leadership? Donna Ladkin 3. Why is it so difficult to study leadership? Donna Ladkin 4. What goes on in the relationship between leaders and followers? Donna Ladkin 5. Why is gender so important in leadership? Claire O’Neill 6. What is different about leadership in business organizations? Tayo Switzer 7. How does power work within leadership relations? Donna Ladkin 8. How do leaders judge what is a responsible course of action? Rita A. Gardiner 9. How can individuals take up the leader role wisely? Donna Ladkin 10. Why can’t leaders be human? Perttu Salovaara 11. What has it meant to rethink leadership? Donna Ladkin Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'As the author of a new book, Professionalizing Leadership, in which I take on the leadership industry, specifically the often careless and casual way in which we profess to teach how to lead, it gives me particular pleasure to highly recommend Teaching Leadership by Perruci and Hall. Though it's possible to take issue with some specifics, to anyone with any interest in leadership as pedagogical practice, especially but not exclusively at the undergraduate level, I say this book is not to be missed.'- Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, US and author of, among others, The End of Leadership, Followership, and Bad Leadership'This book is a must read for educators and students who want to master the fine art of developing leaders and becoming leaders.'- Prasad Kaipa, Kaipa Group, US'Teaching Leadership takes the reader from leadership traits to leadership transformation, and models the pedagogy it professes. Those of us who bridge theory and practice on a daily basis will find the historical, theoretical, and philosophical context in which leadership education, training and development are defined an invaluable prism through which we better understand the why, what and how of leadership. While this book comes close to being the canon we incessantly seek, the authors intentionally avoid this. Instead, they present an integrated complexity of information with glorious clarity. The coalescence of scientific knowledge, philosophical grounding, intentionality, reflection, preparation, thoroughness, program design and evaluation on which Teaching Leadership is based, is a benchmark for best practice in teaching and forming leadership.'- Katherine Tyler Scott, Ki ThoughtBridge LLC, USCan we really teach leadership? Yes, we can, and this book provides innovative ways of doing so. It is designed to help educators contribute to their learners? leadership development by expanding and enhancing their knowledge and competencies through a study of theory, practice and experiential learning. We need effective leaders at all levels of society. The more educators do to prepare leaders to make a positive difference, the better off the world will be. Educators can adjust, adopt, and adapt concrete examples provided in this book to fit their own organizations? needs. The authors explore time-tested efforts at linking leadership theory and practice in ways that promote meaningful leadership development for our learners. Starting from ''?why?'' and ''?what?'' about leadership, the book progresses to ''?how?'' to organize teaching leadership. It emphasizes lessons learned as a result of decades of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of nationally recognized leadership programs. Each chapter includes reflection questions that allow educators to consider how the content is relevant or can be applied to their own institutional context.Teaching Leadership is written for educators and practitioners in undergraduate and graduate-level leadership programs, in professional schools, in technical institutes, and in government institutions, as well as for those working in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.Trade Review'Perruci and Hall affirm and delve deeper into the question, ''Can leadership be taught?'' by providing an understanding of leadership concepts conjoined with the ''why'' it is important to teach leadership and a framework for the ''how'' to go about it. In its wealth of examples, insights and suggestions every reader will find ideas of genuine value. Teaching Leadership is readily accessible, but solidly grounded in the rigor of theory and the relevance of practice.' --Cynthia Cherrey, International Leadership Association'Perruci and Hall have produced an essential guidebook for faculty members who are involved in leadership education. Drawing on decades of experience educating leaders, they approach teaching leadership from an interdisciplinary perspective, one that balances curricular and co-curricular methodologies, and provides the knowledge and tools necessary for a full and dynamic program of leadership education.' --Ronald E. Riggio, Claremont McKenna College, US'Teaching Leadership is a great resource for academics interested in making positional and informal leaders more effective in dealing with wicked problems in the complex and challenging world we live in. Grounded in leadership for now, this book takes in centuries of human reflection on what constitutes a good leader and breaks it down in teachable steps to ensure all have access to tools to create great positive impact for a better world. Teaching leadership ensures there are no excuses to justify the ineptitude of our leaders in action!' --Eliane Ubalijoro, McGill University, Canada and C.L.E.A.R. International Development incTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: Facilitating Student Learning by Susan R. Komives Introduction PART I TEACHING ABOUT LEADERSHIP 1. Teaching Leadership 2. The Interdisciplinary Nature of Leadership Education 3. Developing a Leadership Curriculum 4. The ‘Smart’ Classroom PART II BUILDING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND COMPETENCY 5. The Learning Environment 6. Program Conceptualization and Development 7. Planning Effective Sessions: Strategies, Tools, and Logistics 8. Program Assessment and Evaluation PART III GROWING AS A LEADER 9. Leadership Development 10. Supporting Personal and Professional Growth 11. Leadership Programming for Personal Growth 12. Concluding Thoughts on Teaching Leadership Index

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Book SynopsisRecent populist movements online and around the globe have drawn the attention of news media, social and political analysts, and scholars, all of whom seek to understand the patterns of influence which have produced and are produced by this populist surge. Whether nationalist or revolutionary, ideological or geopolitical, these movements have changed the way we relate to one another as leaders and followers. In its various forms, populism is changing the face and geography of global politics and society. Leadership, Populism and Resistance draws upon the study of history, politics, policy, media, virtue, and heroism to examine the ways in which populism and popular movements have evolved, what we have learned (and failed to learn) from them, how we depict and discuss them through popular media and the press, and, finally, how we can understand virtue and heroism as a consequence or-reaction to-populism and popularity. This volume uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the causes and impacts of populism and popular movements across time and around the world which would appeal to a wide variety of scholars and practitioners. Its chapters provide potential teaching tools within individual disciplines (history, psychology, media studies, political science, literature, education, leadership studies) which are useful for educators at all levels concerned with social movements, populism and democracy. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume is also accessible to non-academic audiences interested in modern populist and popular socio-political trends. Trade Review'In a time when the Western world scratches its head about the rise of populism and the decline of democracy, journalists and pundits try to make sense out of the events of the day. This unique and engaging scholarly collection takes a different tack. By looking at the past, it escapes the tyranny of the present and offers perspective on where we are now and how we might move beyond populist leaders and restore democracy.' --Joanne B. Ciulla, Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Leadership, Populism, and Resistance 1 Kristin M.S. Bezio and George R. Goethals THEORY OF POPULISM 1. Populism discourse and “trouble in democracy”: a critical approach 8 Paul Sanders HISTORICAL POPULISM 2. Muslims are the new Jesuits: what we can learn about leadership and modern Islamophobia from Shakespeare’s England 30 Kristin M.S. Bezio 3. Guinartism: on Don Quixote, caudillos, and political imagination in Latin America 46 Ernesto Semán 4. Eric Voegelin on the seemliness of symbols: Shays’s Rebellion 70 Nathan Harter and Cydney Clark 5. Crusading for citizenship: how the mid-twentieth-century quest for African American voting rights emphasized plurality over populism 90 Julian Maxwell Hayter POPULISM AND MEDIA 6 Talking the talk: communication as the essential element of leadership 107 Hayley Gray-Hoehn 7. Attacking the fourth estate: the nature and effects of political leaders’ war with the press 129 Allison M.N. Archer 8. #TheResistance: leadership and the exercise of dissent in the Twitterverse 148 Kimberly Yost TODAY’S POPULISM 9. Donald Trump as the archetypal puer aeternus: the psychology of mature and immature leadership 160 Scott T. Allison, George R. Goethals, and Smaragda P. Spyrou 10. Immigration and school leadership in the Trump era: a discussion of compliance, ethic of care, and dissent 176 Thomas J. Shields and Kate M. Cassada 11. Beyond red and blue: what students need to learn if American democracy is to survive and thrive 196 Thad Williamson POPULISM AND VIRTUE 12. Humility: the forgotten leadership virtue 212 Kenneth P. Ruscio Index 222

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Book SynopsisPrime Minister Marcello Caetano was the successor of António de Oliveira Salazar. Considered the second most important figure of the Portuguese dictatorship (the Estado Novo regime, 1933-1974), Caetano has generated considerable disagreement amongst scholars with regard to his persona and politics; some consider him more authoritarian than his predecessor, others more liberal. After providing background on his childhood and entry to university, the author explains his growing activism in the Integralismo Lusitano and in the Catholic Church; his monarchist and nationalist ideology. Caetano's decision to support the Salazar Regime coincided with publications in the mainstream media on corporatism, colonialism, European politics and the relationship between Brazil and Portugal. His role in the office of General Secretary of Mocidade Portuguesa (MP), an organization of Portuguese youth similar to the fascist youth organizations in Italy or Germany, was at odds with his neutrality policy in the Second World War. The leadership of União Nacional (the single party of the regime) and the presidency of the Câmara Corporativa (a parliament for corporative interests) led to national recognition at a time when the Portuguese regime had to reform its colonial policy. His tensions with other notables of Salazarism resulted in his political demotion and devotion toward the University in the 1960s. As Rector of Lisbon University he supported universities' autonomy, dividing public opinion. Caetano's Presidency (beginning in September 1968) reflected the tense relationship between the government and the liberal wing on the colonial crisis. Ultimately this led to the final crisis of the New State regime; the fragmentation of the armed forces; and the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974. During his exile in Brazil between 1974 and 1980 Caetano maintained correspondence with his Portuguese friends. These correspondences, introduced and explained by Francisco Martinho, are of exceptional importance in understanding Portugal's contemporary political history.

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Book SynopsisDr. Juan Negrín López (1892-1956) was a man of immense talent, energy, and socialist convictions who served the Spanish people in different capacities: as a physiologist of international reputation and as chairman of the medical faculty of the Complutense University in Madrid during the 1920s; as an active member of the Parliamentary wing of the Socialist Party, 1931-1936; during the Civil War as Minister of Finance in the Popular Front government led by Francisco Largo Caballero (September 1936-May 1937); and as Prime Minister from late May until March 1939. In all these roles he was highly competent: improving the laboratories and experimental methods in physiology, obtaining scholarships for students, suggesting subjects for doctoral theses, encouraging his students to learn foreign languages and read scientific literature in the original, and also to think of public health as a national, public responsibility. As Minister of Finance he conceived of Spain's relatively large gold reserve as the only means by which the Republic could buy the quality of modern arms that were being supplied to General Franco by Hitler and Mussolini. In European politics of the mid-1930s he understood much better than did the English, French, and United States political classes that Nazism and Fascism were a much greater threat to European democracy than was Soviet Communism. But the appeasement policy culminating in the Munich Pact of September 29, 1938 sealed the fate of the Spanish Republic as well as that of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. From 1940 onward Negrín was reviled in Franco Spain for having supposedly delivered the Republic into the hands of the Communists; many republican and socialist exiles also rejected him for continuing his Numantian policy of resistance when, after Munich, the military possibilities of the Republic were truly hopeless. Gabriel Jackson sets out to understand the moral and political thinking of Dr. Negrín of those who supported him to the end and of those who felt that the last months of the war merely prolonged the suffering of the population. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book details the theoretical and practical elements of political rhetoric and their effects on the interactions between politicians and the public. Expert contributors explore the issues associated with political rhetoric from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, linguistics, social psychology and communication studies. Investigating critical emerging topics, such as invited behavior, political public relations, artificial intelligence and 'chatbots', this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field. Empirical data gathered from around the globe facilitates comparison of the different structures, practices and effects of political rhetoric employed across various cultural contexts. Chapters examine what makes a speech effective, politicians' use of moral appeals in political advertising, political attacks on social media, and gender and emotion in political discourse. The Rhetoric of Political Leadership will be a key resource for scholars and students of political science, communication studies and social psychology, particularly those focusing on cross-cultural perspectives. It will also appeal to those working in leadership and politics that are seeking an in-depth understanding of the importance and use of discourse in the political arena. Contributors include: M. Asano, C.S. Ben-Porat, I.J. de Sousa, O. Feldman, A. Gayoso, M. Hameleers, I. Joathan, C. Johnson, M.A. Krasner, S. Lehman-Wilzig, F.P.J. Marques, B. Mendelski, M.S. Teer, A. Walter, J. WangTrade Review‘The Rhetoric of Political Leadership provides insight into both the rational and emotional attributes of political discourse more broadly and political rhetoric and their effects more specifically. The book is well-written and provides fascinating insight into political language, discourse and rhetoric from across the globe. It would be of interest to postgraduate students, scholars/researchers in the fields of linguistics, communication and politics who wish to understand the myriad of rhetorical techniques and tools that politicians use to persuade the public and the implications and impact on the audience. The key strengths of the book can be summarised as its reference to political discourse from a diverse range of contexts and countries, its dedicated section on social media discourse as well chapters which drew on multimodal discourse analysis.’ -- Neda Salahshour, Journal of Language and Politics'This volume is a must-read collection for scholars working in and across the fields of political science, social psychology, media communication and discourse studies. It does not only offer cutting-edge perspectives on rational and emotional attributes of political rhetoric, but also on their effects across a wide variety of societies and venues.' -- Anita Fetzer, University of Augsburg, Germany‘Cutting-edge analyses reveal how politicians use public self-presentations to recruit the loyalists who empower them, whether by voting or by oppressing. Both linguistic and paralinguistic behaviors are examined across a broad variety of cultures and languages, in both traditional and new media, and under both democratic and dictatorial institutions. Innovative methodologies and novel techniques uncover general patterns as well as peculiarities specific to particular national settings. Together the authors push the study of political communication to new frontiers.’ -- Richard Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles, US‘Ofer Feldman offers a comprehensive study of contemporary political communication that centers in key countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, China, Japan and others. The focus on politicians’ evocative communication promotes a fresh look at how leaders resort to persuasive techniques that allow content and style to secure adherents. The book’s international focus adds great insights to those interested in world political communication and expands readers’ understanding of the rise of populism as a rhetorical objective.’ -- Amos Kiewe, Syracuse University, US‘This volume contributes usefully to our growing understanding of political language as a form of strategic communication. The global range of the examples is admirable, reminding us that, while media platforms are increasingly international, meaning is still culturally specific.’ -- Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds, UK‘This book brings together a fascinating collection of special essays that illuminate the multiple roles of language in framing political issues, and in persuading others to support the proposals and decisions of political leaders. Case studies from selected countries, some rarely examined, explore how top political leaders use rhetoric strategies to mobilize the electorate, lead government, and to affect policy discourse and interventions. Anyone interested in the complex relationships between political rhetoric, leadership, and governance will find this book essential reading.’ -- Ken Kinoshita, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, JapanTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: persuasive speaking and evoking political behavior 1 Ofer Feldman PART I PERSUASIVE LEADERSHIP: EMOTION, STYLE, AND IDENTITY IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARENAS 2 Gender, emotion and political discourse: masculinity, femininity and populism 16 Carol Johnson 3 What makes a speech effective? Netanyahu’s and Obama’s SPECtrum of Rhetoric Intelligences (SPEC/RI) in United Nations speeches 2009–2012 34 Michelle Stein Teer 4 Xi Jinping’s governance philosophy and language style: analysis of the Chinese leader’s speeches 53 Jianxin Wang 5 The French state of emergency: marginalization of the Muslim minority as a consequence of state self-legitimation 69 Bruno Mendelski PART II EVOKING BEHAVIOR: THE RHETORIC OF PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION, TELEVISED INTERVIEW, AND ELECTION CAMPAIGN 6 Battling for America’s soul: Donald Trump, invited behavior, and the midterm elections of 2018 86 Michael Alan Krasner 7 Political Public Relations (PPR) techniques: emotional input and output 104 Albina Gayoso 8 The rhetoric of broadcast talk shows in Japan: the art of equivocation as a political skill 139 Ofer Feldman 9 Politicians’ use of moral appeals in British political advertising 1983–2017 156 Annemarie Walter 10 Facial expressions in election campaign posters: the effect of smiling on winning political seats during the 2017 Japanese lower house election 172 Masahiko Asano PART III SOCIAL MEDIA DISCOURSE: POPULISM, NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNS, AND THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 11 They are lying to us! The rhetoric of direct communication by populist politicians and its effects on the electorate: evidence from the Netherlands 196 Michael Hameleers 12 Emotion, reason, and political attacks on Facebook : the use of rhetorical appeals in the 2014 Brazilian presidential race 214 Ícaro Joathan and Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques 13 Political discourse through artificial intelligence: parliamentary practices and public perceptions of chatbot communication in social media 230 Chen Sabag Ben-Porat and Sam Lehman-Wilzig Index 246

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the dynamics of trust is an imperative undertaking for educational leaders. In this book, using an ecological perspective of the lifecycle, the authors situate trust as an essential ingredient of school leaders’ moral agency and ethical decision making.Based on their 15 years of research on trust in education, the authors describe the nature and dimensions of trust, its importance and imperative, and its fragility and usefulness for school leaders, positioning them as trust brokers in school organizations. The book offers a detailed description of trust’s lifecycle stages, namely establishing, maintaining, sustaining, breaking, and restoring, as pertinent to educational settings. It discusses leaders' trust brokering in relation to social capital and psychological contract and interconnected hosting virtues of compassion, hope, and trust. The authors conclude with the role of maturing vision of moral agency, the subjective and objective responsibilities of educational leaders, and the necessary ethical commitments and courage to enact transformative practices in order to provide trustworthy leadership.With its theoretical and empirical basis, this book is an excellent resource for scholars in the fields of education, business, and leadership. It is also a valuable resource as required or supplementary reading for graduate courses in educational administration, leadership, and policy studies. Practitioners in these areas will find valuable insights that they can incorporate into their work.Trade Review‘Kutsyuruba and Walker’s The Lifecycle of Trust in Education: Leaders as Moral Agents is a very timely, useful, and thought-provoking book that consolidates the authors’ research and offers a synthesis of their writing over the past 15 years. It consists of a total of 16 chapters over an easy-to-read 232 pages organized into three parts: understanding trust; trust lifecycle; trust brokering and moral agency. Within each part, the authors embed an excellent review of the literature while drawing directly upon their own research so readers can hear authentic voices of active and engaged school leaders. I found that their style allowed me to feel like I was participating in the various conversations about trust and encouraged me to reflect upon my own related experiences of trust in various organizational, professional, and personal contexts.’ -- Derek Stovin, Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy/Foundations (CJEAP)‘This volume by Kutsyuruba and Walker is a timely examination of an overlooked but essential component of relationships among leadership, staff, and faculty within educational institutions, namely trust. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.’ -- D D Bouchard, ,CHOICE,/i>'The Lifecycle of Trust in Education offers comprehensive coverage of leadership and trust that spans classic and contemporary approaches. The book takes leaders on a critical journey through the meanings, shape, and applicability of the ecology and brokering of trust, moral agency, and successful leadership. A must read for those with a vested interest in education.' -- Anthony H. Normore, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I UNDERSTANDING TRUST 1. Introduction to the ecology of trust 2. The nature of trust 3. Dimensions of trust 4. The trust imperative in relationships 5. The usefulness of trust 6. Fragility of trust 7. Distrust and mistrust PART II TRUST LIFECYCLE 8. Establishing trust 9. Maintaining trust 10. Sustaining trust 11. Breaking trust 12. Restoring trust PART III TRUST BROKERING AND MORAL AGENCY 13. Trust, ethics, and moral agency 14. Educational leaders as trust brokers 15. Leaders’ exercise of moral agency 16. Moral agency and growth towards transformation References Index

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and extended second edition of the groundbreaking Rethinking Leadership builds on Donna Ladkin's entirely new approach to understanding leadership as a lived experience rather than a checklist of traits or behaviors. Alongside selected expert contributors, the author makes complex ideas accessible by illustrating them with practical examples drawn from a broad experience of both academic leadership and management across a range of commercial, political and not-for-profit organizations. New chapters explore the lived experience of women leaders, how leaders might make responsible judgments, how power works within leadership relations, how business leadership differs from political leadership, and the need for leaders to be more 'human'. Featuring up-to-date examples of how its ideas can be applied, the book offers a way to engage with the complexity and unpredictability of leadership as a phenomenon, at a time when effective, wise leadership is needed more than ever. Leadership scholars and doctoral level students will benefit from this book's novel philosophical perspective on leadership theorizing. Its discussion of a variety of accessible case studies that illustrate key ideas will also prove useful to all postgraduate leadership students. Contributors: R.A. Gardiner, D. Ladkin, C. O'Neill, P. Salovaara, T. SwitzerTrade Review'I once met a man who had travelled halfway around the world with a small bag and one book: Rethinking Leadership. This is a book that takes you to new places in yourself and in the world. Key features of this latest edition include: a refined leadership model that emphasises context; current case studies and compelling contributions from leadership experts. Beautifully written in a warm, relatable way, with complex philosophies made accessible, you will rediscover the thrill of learning, reflecting and practicing leadership.' --Chellie Spiller, University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand'This book will be highly beneficial to any reader. Most notably, it provides an understanding of the philosophical foundation of ethics and morality in leadership to practitioners, who rarely have the time to dig into journals or papers that provide insights into that groundwork. The book fills this void as it covers the underpinning of ethical decision-making and thus helps a leader to confront and manage the 21st century's increasing challenges and disruptions.' --Roland Bardy, BardyConsult Management Training and former director at BASF SE, Germany'With many of us deeply disillusioned, asking do we need leadership at all and how have we got so captive of its corrupted forms, more than ever we need the rethinking posed in this book. Ladkin and her colleagues take us on a radically different journey around leadership, drawing on continental philosophy and especially phenomenology to ask deeper questions about what leadership is, why it matters, and how to imbue our understandings with less hype, more moral integrity and humanity.' --Amanda Sinclair, Melbourne Business School, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why study leadership from a philosophical perspective? Donna Ladkin 2. Why are there so many different theories of leadership? Donna Ladkin 3. Why is it so difficult to study leadership? Donna Ladkin 4. What goes on in the relationship between leaders and followers? Donna Ladkin 5. Why is gender so important in leadership? Claire O’Neill 6. What is different about leadership in business organizations? Tayo Switzer 7. How does power work within leadership relations? Donna Ladkin 8. How do leaders judge what is a responsible course of action? Rita A. Gardiner 9. How can individuals take up the leader role wisely? Donna Ladkin 10. Why can’t leaders be human? Perttu Salovaara 11. What has it meant to rethink leadership? Donna Ladkin Bibliography Index

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