Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1476795924 ISBN13: 9781476795928 Release Date: September 2018 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Length: 496 Pages Weight: 1.58 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3" The inspiration for the forthcoming two-part series Theodore Roosevelt, premiering May 31 on the HISTORY Channel, and three-part epic documentary event Abraham Lincoln, available now on the HISTORY Channel. "After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians" (USA TODAY). In her "inspiring" (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely--Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)--to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when t