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Leadership

by James MacGregor Burns · 1978

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One of America's leading historians on the role of leadership in American history.

Subject
leadershipleadershipMore like thisLess of thisbusinessbusinessMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thiseducationeducationMore like thisLess of this
Themes
workworkMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 530 pages

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