Lives of Moral Leadership Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference

Name: Lives of Moral Leadership Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
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ISBN: 9780375758355

ISBN-10: 0375758356

ISBN-13: 9780375758355

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert Coles

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In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others. Coles tells how to be a moral leader and shows how the intervention of one person can change the course of history, as well as influence the day-to-day quality of life in our homes, schools, communities, and nation. We need to "hand one another along" in life, says Coles, quoting his friend Walker Percy, and…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry & medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School, a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services, & the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard College. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Children of Crisis" series as well as the best-selling "The Spiritual Life of Children" & "The Moral Intelligence of Children". Dr. Coles is a founding editor of the award-winning magazine "DoubleTake".



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Introduction: Stories of Moral Leadership



An Effective Moral Leader: Remembering Robert Kennedy



On Robert Kennedy and Shakespeare's Henry V



Conrad's Typhoon



Moral Integration: Four Stories



Eliciting the Assent of the Follower: Emerson's Representative Men



Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in Tandem: The Moral Leader of a Moral Leader



Danilo Dolci, Community Organizer and Writer: The Leader as Loner



Handing Each Other Along: Moral Leadership in Everyday Life



Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Will and Moral Transcendence



The Bond Between Leaders and Followers: Erik Erikson, Gandhi, and Albert Jones, a Boston Bus Driver



High and Low Places: Two Presidents and American Children


Afterword