Traditional Classics on Leadership, Vol. 1

by J. Thomas Wren, Douglas A. Hicks, Terry L. Price

The International Library of Leadership brings together in one place the most significant writings on leadership, the process by which groups, organizations, and societies seek to satisfy their needs and achieve their objectives. Volume 1 focuses on classic discussions of perennial leadership issues including the moral purpose of leadership, the nature of legitimate authority, and the role of followers. Volume 2 turns to investigations of leadership in the modern era and makes available the seminal social scientific works that inaugurated the modern theories of leadership. Volume 3 builds upon the analyses of power, culture, and gender in the first two volumes to address current ethical, democratic, and international challenges of leadership. This three-volume collection is designed to offer a sophisticated and substantive understanding of what is perhaps the most important social phenomenon of our age.

339 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

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This book is required for the TESC course "Leaders in History." It is made up of excerpts of writings of famous people, on the topic of leadership. The writings demonstrate what some of history's greatest and most infamous minds thought about the topic.

1. The Moral Purpose of Leadership
-Plato
-Aristotle
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-Immanuel Kant
-James Madison
-Frederick Neitszche

2. Ideal Leadership
-Plato
-Thomas Aquinas
-Niccolo Machiavelli
-Adam Smith
-John Stuart Mill
-Christne de Pizan
-Virginia Woolfe
-Sigmund Freud

3. The Nature of Legitimate Authority
-John Calvin
-James I
-The Levellers
-Thomas Hobbes
-John Locke
-David Hume

4. The Status of Followers
-Niccolo Machiavelli
-Georg Wilhelm Frederich Handel
-Mary Wollstonecraft
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-John Dewey

5. Challenges to Authority
-Philippe Duplessis-Mornay
-Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
-David Walker
-Henry David Thoreau
-W. E. B. DuBois