by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin distills five decades of studying Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ into a framework of how leaders develop through ambition, adversity, and crisis. She argues that leadership is learned through specific, identifiable habits of empathy, communication, and resilience during difficult eras.
In this collection, Leadership in Turbulent Times references 4 other books and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Guns of August and Meditations.
It’s picked up by Wisdom Takes Work.
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Goodwin builds on the presidential-crisis framing Shirer pioneered, extending it to American leaders facing domestic upheaval
Goodwin again invokes Tuchman's narrative model, applying Guns of August's emphasis on decision-making under pressure to her four presidents
Goodwin uses Marcus Aurelius's Stoic framework to analyze Lincoln's and FDR's capacity to manage emotion in crisis
Goodwin's synthesis of historical leadership patterns echoes the cyclical lessons Durant distilled in The Lessons of History
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Leadership in Turbulent Times is recommended alongside Team of Rivals as Goodwin's distillation of her Lincoln research. Holiday describes loving the book for how it combines Lincoln's leadership lessons with biographical detail.
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