Do leaders make history or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people
are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and become better leaders today?
This book offers a deep-dive into the art science and practice of leadership around the world
and across ages led by a Harvard professor and historian. Through wide-ranging and lively
stories Moshik Temkin considers the lessons and warnings we can take from leaders such as
Franklin D Roosevelt and the suffragettes the Civil Rights struggle and anticolonial wars.
From the necessary qualities of leaders in a crisis to how to lead when you don't have any
power this book also examines how in a world desperate for good leadership we might draw
lessons for ourselves today.
