Archie Brown

Gebundenes Buch

The Myth of the Strong Leader

Political Leadership in the Modern Age

Beschreibung

A wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, that challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders - those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process - 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: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 899g
• ISBN-13: 9781847921758
• ISBN-10: 1847921752
• Artikelnr.: 37295459

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"