Archie Brown

The Myth of the Strong Leader

Political Leadership in the Modern Age

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

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"