{"id":216,"date":"2015-05-13T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/mark-mendenhall\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T21:33:50","slug":"learning-about-leadership-from-history-suggested-readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/mark-mendenhall\/learning-about-leadership-from-history-suggested-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning about Leadership from History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/mark-mendenhall\/files\/2015\/05\/noun_book_26680.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/mark-mendenhall\/files\/2015\/05\/noun_book_26680-150x150.png\" alt=\"noun_book_26680\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/mark-mendenhall\/files\/2015\/05\/noun_book_26680-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/mark-mendenhall\/files\/2015\/05\/noun_book_26680-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/mark-mendenhall\/files\/2015\/05\/noun_book_26680.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">I have gleaned some powerful lessons on leadership from reading the books listed below. I hope you do as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>&#8220;Freedom at Midnight&#8221; <\/strong>by <span style=\"color: #800080\">Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre<\/span>.\u00a0Vikas Publishing, 2004.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;John Adams&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">David McCullough.<\/span> Simon &amp; Schuster, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">Richard Lyman Bushman<\/span>. Knopf, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>&#8220;Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">John Carlin<\/span>.\u00a0Penguin, 2008.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography of Albert Schweitzer&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">Albert Schweitzer<\/span>. Holt, Rinehart &amp; Winston, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>&#8220;Robert Kennedy and His Times&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.<\/span>\u00a0Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333\">&#8220;The March of Folly: \u00a0From Troy to Vietnam&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333\">by <span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00a0Barbara Tuchman<\/span>.\u00a0Random House, 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>&#8220;The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914.&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">David McCullough<\/span>.\u00a0Simon and Schuster, 2001.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>&#8220;The Prince&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">Niccolo Machiavelli<\/span>.\u00a0University of Chicago Press, 1998.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Wright Brothers&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #993366\">David McCullough.<\/span> Simon &amp; Schuster, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>\u201cTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>by <span style=\"color: #800080\">Doris Kearns Goodwin<\/span>. Penguin, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>&#8220;Three Golden Ages: Discovering The Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America&#8217;s Founding.&#8221;<\/strong> by <span style=\"color: #800080\">Alf Mapp, Jr<\/span>. \u00a0Madison Books, 1998.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have gleaned some powerful lessons on leadership from reading the books listed below. I hope you do as well. &nbsp; &#8220;Freedom at Midnight&#8221; by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre.\u00a0Vikas Publishing, 2004. &#8220;John Adams&#8221; by David McCullough. Simon &amp; Schuster, 2002. &#8220;Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling&#8221; by Richard Lyman Bushman. 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