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This engaging, unusually rewarding book[which] will foster a new appreciation for effective leadership and prompt many readers to lament the lack of it in the world today ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review), by celebrated Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, examines five masters of explorer Ernest Shackleton; Abraham Lincoln; abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson. What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In her enthrallingfascinating look at a varied group of heroes ( Publishers Weekly ), Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable template by which to measure our aspirations and, also, to judge those in our time to whom we've given our trust. Featuring five stand-alone case studies that are well-written and interesting ( The New York Times ), Koehn begins each section by showing her protagonist on the precipice of a great Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith; C

Author

Koehn, Nancy F. (Nancy Fowler), 1959- author

Publisher

Scribner Book Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501174445

Subjects

Sociology, Management, History

Rating

4.7 / 5 (439 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14