{"product_id":"a-history-of-charisma-9780230551534","title":"A History of Charisma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements The History of a Word The Roots of Charisma Paul Invents Charisma Charisma Eclipsed Where Did Charisma Go? Weber Re-Invents Charisma Twentieth Century Charismatics The Age of Media: Charisma and Celebrity Charisma Past, Present and Future That Elusive Something Called Charisma Bibliography Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Potts' contribution provides perspective and context for the teaching of leadership.' -Thomas F. Tumblin, Journal of Religious Leadership\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'After reading John Potts's engrossing new book, A History of Charisma, I agree with him unreservedly...Charisma matters a lot, for good and ill, in politics, religion, business, the arts and many other walks of life.' The Australian\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e...[an] absorbing book...it is brilliantly argued and, though deeply scholarly, fully accessible to the general reader.' Richard King, Australian Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'...it takes a skilful author to make such a page-turner based on a 'history of a word'. Potts has succeeded by writing in a lucid and intelligent style...A mystery wrapped up as a work of historical scholarship.' - Transforming Management\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e...'John Potts' synthesis- clearly written, and helpfully structured with numerous subheadings- leaves us with a much fuller, richer meaning for a concept that serves to provide some refuge from an increasingly rationalised, bureaucratised, disenchanted, as well as celebrity obsessed, world. Its problematic usage is unlikely to decline, and we need all the help we can get to try to understand it.' - Beverley Southgate, Rethinking History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements The History of a Word The Roots of Charisma Paul Invents Charisma Charisma Eclipsed Where Did Charisma Go? Weber Re-Invents Charisma Twentieth Century Charismatics The Age of Media: Charisma and Celebrity Charisma Past, Present and Future That Elusive Something Called Charisma Bibliography Index","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767166402903,"sku":"9780230551534","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780230551534.jpg?v=1758712453","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-charisma-9780230551534","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}