| Description |
xxxi, 718 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Studying the system. The deep river a story of ancient tribal migration / Bessie Head -- Men, women, and chiefs / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Pericles reminds the Athenians who they are / Thucydides -- Dux femina facti: Dido builds Carthage -- Poetry reading / Rosanna Warren -- On authority / Friedrich Engels -- The monkey-rope / Herman Melville -- Understanding the city / Jane Jacobs -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Remaining awake through a great revolution / Martin Luther King. Emulating heroes. Nathan and Mithridanes / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Tilting at windmills / Miguel De Cervantes -- The hero of Solferino / Joseph Roth -- Once upon a time / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- The dead man / Jorge Luis Borges -- Isadora / Janet Fletcher. Album. On noise / Seneca -- Ambrose reading / Augustine -- Ulysses S. Gratn at work / Horace Porter -- A cup of tea / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens -- The method of Inspector Maigret / Georges Simenon. Risking revision. Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times / Niccoló Machiavelli -- An old and established name / Lao She -- Electrification / Mikhail Zoschenko -- Personal best / Atul Gawande -- Birth of a dynasty / Alexander Wolff -- Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin -- Daedalus and Icarus, Daedalus and Perdix / Ovid -- The oak and the reed / Jean de la Fountaine. Knowing the way. from Tao Te Ching / Lao Tzu -- from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- The ruler and the general / Sun Tzu -- About the good sense and cleverness of Queen Dido / Christine de Pizan -- Of studies / Francis Bacon -- Gone fishing / Mark Singer -- A woman's place is running the kitchen / Marnie Hanel -- On military genius / Carl Von Clauswitz -- Time and patience / Leo Tolstoy -- Omar Bradley / A.J. Liebling -- The taste of Banzo's sword / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones -- The oven bird / Robert Frost. Album: artists of delay. When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton -- Fabius Maxiumus, two sayings of Augustus Caesar -- Replies to parliamentary petitions / Elizabeth I -- The Cretonnes of Penelope / Joseph Harrison -- Penelope's despair / Yannis Ritsos. Cultivating trust. The monkey's heroic self-sacrifice -- The tale of King Yunan and the sage Duban -- from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- How to build a ship / Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca -- Interview with Jean Renoir / George Stevens Jr. -- Mission command / Martin E. Dempsey -- Open secrets / Malcolm Gladwell. Album: Con artists. The Crane and the cow -- In the hands of destiny / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones -- Out the lion's skin / Plutarch -- The way princes should keep their word / Niccoló Machiavelli -- Romance of the three kingdoms / The Justice of General Ts'ao -- Cecil B. DeMille on the set / Mervyn LeRoy -- Hercules, Deianira, Nessus / C.K. Williams. Negotiating world and self. Of cannibals / Michel de Montaigne -- Speaking the truth / Baldassare Castiglione -- Sekandar visits the Emperor of China -- Speech at St. Nicholas Hotel, Speech at Cooper Union / Red Cloud -- Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith -- Of negotiating / Francis Bacon -- Latin rebuke to the Polish ambassador / Elizabeth I -- Suppose you and I have an argument / Chang Tzu. Taking responsibility. Hector returns to Troy / Homer -- from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- The governor of P'ing Lu, Tyrant Chieh / Mencius -- Parable of the Sower -- Paragle of the Talents -- A little touch of Harry in the night / William Shakespeare -- The deliberation of Brutus / William Shakespeare -- A valor-ruined man / Herman Melville -- If they hang you / Dashiell Hammett -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson. Album: artists of persuasion. Professions for women / Virginia Woolf -- First fireside chat on bankig Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The four freedoms / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The defence of freedom and peace / Winston Churchill -- Henry V at Agincourt / William Shakespeare -- We will stand and fight here / Bernard Montgomery -- Speech to the third army / George Patton. Learning from failure. The arctic hedonist / Anne Fadiman -- The story of Croesus / Herodotus -- Alexander / Plutarch -- The trek to Kabul / Babur -- A valuable lesson / Ulysses S. Grant -- Orpheus and Eurydice / Czeslaw Milosz. Resisting the system. The story of Moses -- The peasants' revolt / Barbara W. Tuchman -- The tyranny of the system / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Taking the ell / Frederick Douglass -- Statement to the court / Eugene V. Debs -- Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mohandas Gandhi -- I am prepared to die / Nelson Mandela Songs of resistance. Been in the storm so long -- Sinking of the Titanic -- De Ballit of de boll weevil -- John Henry -- The Cryderville jail -- Do re mi / Woody Guthrie -- St. Louis Blues / W.C. Handy -- Blues on yellow / Marilyn Chin. Poetry of exile. Poem no. 286 (on Stalin) / Osip Mandelstam -- A prayer for the end of the century / Heberto Padilla. Album: Abraham Lincoln, Artist of judgement. Letter to David Hunter -- Letters to George B. McClellan-- Letter to Joseph Hooker -- Letter to John M. Schofield -- Letters to Ulysses S. Grant -- Correspondence with the war department -- Second inaugural address. Disciplining desire. Macbeth / William Shakespeare. Album: Art of the story. We tell ourselves stories / Joan Didion -- Of the inconsistency of our actions / Michel de Montaigne -- American everyman: portrait of Warren Buffett. Coda: letting go. In reply to vice-magistrate Chang / Wang Wei -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Inevitably, she declined / Lucie Brock-Broido. |
| Subject |
Leadership.
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| Added Author |
Samet, Elizabeth D., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780393239690 (hardcover) |
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