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The New York Timesâbestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy. Â In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structuresâfrom the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europeâs absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenmentâs ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Â Along the way, he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worldsâElizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gorbachev, and others. Culminating in a bold and innovative plan to address the greatest global leadership challenge of the twenty-first century, the long-intractable problem of global poverty, Transforming Leadership will spark lively discussion in classrooms and boardrooms throughout the country. Â |
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