Leading and leadership /
edited by Timothy Fuller.
- xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. CLASSICAL HORIZONS -- "The essential Confucius" -- Lao-tzu, Tao-te Ching -- Plato, "Epistles" -- Cicero, De Officiis -- Plutarch, Moralia -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, selected poems -- John Keats, "On fame" -- Montaigne, "Of glory" -- Francis Bacon, "Of great place" -- The wisdom of Baltasar Gracian -- Hans J. Morgenthau, "Love and power" --
2. ON GREATNESS AND THE HEROIC -- Homer, Iliad -- St. Thomas Aquinas, "On princely government" -- Machiavelli, The Prince -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Reason in history" -- Jacob Burckhardt, Force and freedom --
3. DEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIP --
A. Leadership and the Advent of democracy -- Benjamin Constant, "The liberty of the Ancients compared with that of the moderns" -- Alexis de Tocqueville, "Why there are so many men of ambition in the United States but so few lofty ambitions" -- Soren Kierkegaard, The present age, "The individual and 'the public'" --
B. Leadership in practice in a Democratic Era -- George Washington, "Farewell address to Americans, 1796" -- Frederick Douglas, "Fourth of July Oration, 1852" -- Abraham Lincoln, "A house divided", The emancipation proclamation, The Gettysburg address, Second Inaugural address -- Martin Luther King, Jr., "I have a dream", Letter from Birmingham jail -- Woodrow Wilson, "Abraham Lincoln: A man of the people", "Leaders of men" --
4. RECENT REFLECTIONS -- Max Weber, "Charismatic authority" -- Ronald M. Glassman, "Manufactured Charisma and legitimacy" -- Abraham Zaleznik, "Managers and leaders: are they different?" -- Bertrand de Jouvenel, "The Chairman's problem" -- James MacGregor Burns, "Conflict and consciousness" -- John Gardner, various selections .