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McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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"Born and raised in the humble environs of the Bronx, Colin Powell has learned to operate with skill and ease in the world's most exclusive, exacting corridors of power." "Comfortable and confident in today's bareknuckles geopolitical arena, the self-effacing Powell has always been willing to deflect credit if it meant achieving his stated goals." "But make no mistake. Colin Powell is and always will be in command." "The Leadership Secrets of Colin...
5) Bloodline
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English
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When the Rebellion defeated the Empire in the skies above Endor, Leia Organa believed it was the beginning to a lasting peace. But after decades of vicious infighting and partisan gridlock in the New Republic Senate, that hope seems like a distant memory. Now a respected senator, Leia must grapple with the dangers that threaten to cripple the fledgling democracy -- from both within and without. Underworld kingpins, treacherous politicians, and Imperial...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A guide to business leadership based on the strategies of Abraham Lincoln focuses on the President's most difficult decisions during the Civil War, offering lessons based on his experiences for today's businessperson.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This history of U.S. presidential involvement in and control of the UFO phenomenon since the 1940s draws from a range of sources to discuss Robert Emenegger's government-funded documentary and the discoveries handled by each administration.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Abraham Lincoln is recognized as one of history's finest leaders, a great president when the United States was under tremendous strain. But suppose he were alive today? How would Lincoln deal with today's high-pressure issues, from politics to business? Based on a lifelong study of Lincoln's life, writings, and speeches, best-selling author Donald T. Phillips offers compelling ideas on how Lincoln would employ his exemplary leadership and executive...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
My Fellow Americans, The past 30 months have been very eventful for our country and for me. I'm proud of the strides we have made to accomplish the vision that I described in "To Renew America. As the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, I have been privileged to play a role in many legislative and political struggles. My tenure as Speaker has been marked by both unprecedented accomplishment and unprecedented conflict....
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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Working together in top leadership positions in both the private and public sectors for over 30 years, Governor Charlie Baker (Republican) and Steve Kadish (Democrat) developed and honed an approach to getting things done that gets past political and organizational impediments. Distilled into a framework of 4 steps, their practical approach to delivering results is the much-needed implementation guidebook for anyone in public service as well as for...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of Waris a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending...
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Series
Publisher
Atlas/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less effective occupation tactics.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy "Leaders," writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, "think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age's uniquely devastating despots-and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death....
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