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  • Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership

    Leaders are persons generally expected to excel at inspiration, persuasion and management. Few leaders, however, excel at all three equally. ‘Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership’ examines one leader – Dwight Eisenhower – who was particularly adept at management. Rising through the ranks of the interwar US Army, Eisenhower became a valued staff officer who went on to lead the Allies ... Read more

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  • Churchill and the King

    The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI

    For fans of The King's Speech, the intriguing bond between monarch and prime minister and its crucial role during World War IIThe political and personal relationship between King George VI and Winston Churchill during World War II is one that has been largely overlooked throughout history, yet the trust and loyalty these men shared helped Britain navigate its perhaps most trying time.Despite their ... Read more

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  • Prophecy in Politics

    Or, the Wigram Aspect

    Series series Haus Curiosities
    A selection of case studies on prophecy, belief, and political strategic thought.Ralph Wigram was a minor British bureaucrat who is known to a small part of posterity only because Winston Churchill paid tribute to him as the man who warned of the Nazi threat with such persistence, conviction, and hard evidence that Churchill had the wherewithal to make the case to the British people. Wigram died ... Read more

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  • The Year of Indecision, 1946

    A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

    A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman’s first full year in officeIn 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant start of America Triumphant, in world politics and economics. But the reality is murkier: 1946 brought tension between ... Read more

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  • On Ambivalence

    The Problems and Pleasures of Having it Both Ways

    A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative ... Read more

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  • Real Influencers

    Fourteen Disappearing Acts that Left Fingerprints on History

    What is influence and why might real influencers be those whose names we no longer remember? Ken Weisbrode embarks on an exploration to trace the most powerful strands of cultural and intellectual influence, and demonstrates it might not be what we think it is."The influencer is a person who made an art of absence in the trade of cultural and sometimes political capital. The ones in this book ... Read more

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  • Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership

    Leaders are persons generally expected to excel at inspiration, persuasion and management. Few leaders, however, excel at all three equally. ‘Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership’ examines one leader – Dwight Eisenhower – who was particularly adept at management. Rising through the ranks of the interwar US Army, Eisenhower became a valued staff officer who went on to lead the Allies ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership

    Series series Anthem Impact
    "Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership" examines the theory and practice of collaboration, and collaborative leadership, in the life and career of Dwight Eisenhower. It relates his collaborative style to his ideas about friendship, his Kansas upbringing and his family, his military training and career, and his particular practice of presidential leadership, which operated through ... Read more

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  • The American Archipelago

    A New Edition of Oscar Handlin’s Classic Anthology, 'This Was America'

    by Oscar Handlin ...
    Oscar Handlin (1915–2011), one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century, reshaped the study of American history with a career spanning more than forty books. Best known for 'The Uprooted' (1951), his groundbreaking work on immigration, Handlin was equally a generalist whose insights reached nearly every corner of the American past.The collection at hand, Handlin’s classic ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Year of Indecision, 1946

    A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

    Narrated by Jonathan Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 21 min

    In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant start of America Triumphant, in world politics and economics. But the reality is murkier: 1946 brought tension between industry and labor, political disunity, bad veteran morale, housing crises, inflation, a Soviet menace-all ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Churchill and the King

    The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI

    Narrated by Christian Rodska ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 56 min

    The intriguing bond between monarch and prime minister and its crucial role during World War IIThe political and personal relationship between King George VI and Winston Churchill during World War II is one that has been largely overlooked throughout history, yet the trust and loyalty these men shared helped Britain navigate its perhaps most trying time.Despite their vast differences, the two men ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD