The New York Times bestselling book about the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin “should help us raise our expectations of our national leaders, our country, and ourselves” (The Washington Post).

“After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians” (USA TODAY). In her “uplifting” (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin pulls upon the four about Management presidents she’s studied most closely-Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil privileges)-to show how they regarded leadership characteristics within themselves and had been recognized as market leaders by others. By looking back again to their initial entries into public existence, we encounter them at the same time when their paths were filled up with confusion, fear, and hope.

Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged suited to confront the contours and dilemmas of their instances. At their best, all four had been guided by a feeling of moral purpose. At occasions of great problem, they were in a position to summon their talents to enlarge the possibilities and lives of others. Does the leader make the times or perform the changing times make the leader?

“If ever our country needed a brief course on presidential leadership, it is right now” (The Seattle Times). This seminal work provides an accessible and essential street map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today’s polarized world, these stories of authentic management in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. “Goodwin’s quantity deserves very much praise-it is definitely insightful, readable, powerful: Her book arrives just in time” (The Boston Globe).