TY - BOOK AU - Isaacson,Walter TI - Profiles in leadership: historians on the elusive quality of greatness SN - 9780393340761 AV - 002 E 176 P964 2011 U1 - 324.2/2 PY - 2011/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - W.W. Norton & Co KW - Leadership KW - United States KW - Case studies KW - Political leadership KW - Political activists KW - Social reformers KW - Businessmen N1 - Incluye índice; Introduction / Walter Isaacson -- George Washington, the general / Thomas Fleming -- Charles Finney, prophet of social reform / Frances FitzGerald -- President Ulysses S. Grant and the battle for equality / Sean Wilentz -- J. Pierpont Morgan : he knew he was right / Jean Strouse -- Chief Joseph and the challenge of Indian leadership / Elliott West -- When presidents become weak / Robert Dallek -- The phenomenon of W. E. B. DuBois / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Mr. McGraw / Kevin Baker -- Two approaches to leadership / Alan Brinkley -- The qualities of leadership : Dwight D. Eisenhower as warrior and president / David M. Kennedy -- The implausible Wendell Willkie : leadership ahead of its time / David Levering Lewis -- "Am I a 'screwball', or am I a pioneer?" : Pauli Murray's Civil Rights movement / Glenda Gilmore -- Robert Kennedy, the empathetic leader / Evan Thomas ER -