Archie Brown

Broschiertes Buch

The Myth of the Strong Leader

Political Leadership in the Modern Age

Beschreibung

UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most successful and admirable.

Autor

Archie Brown is a British political scientist and historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. A Fellow of the British Academy since 1991, Professor Brown was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He has written widely on Soviet and Communist politics, the Cold War, and political leadership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 742432
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9780099554851
• ISBN-10: 0099554852
• Artikelnr.: 41488118

Rezensionen

"An important and unusual read... Brown does a wonderful job of showing how the same qualities that can seem so appealing in strong leaders can lead, in the mildest cases, to bad decisions - and, in the most extreme cases, to death and suffering on a massive scale.... Though The Myth of the Strong Leader is about political leadership, you come away from Brown's book with a deeper understanding of leadership in general"