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Canadian Lawyer Magazine, May 8, 2012
...a long time (it was on Thomas Jefferson’s mind when the Union was created). Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns has written of the U.S. Supreme Court: “Justices throughout the court’s history have clung to their seats long after...
Yahoo! News, May 1, 2012
...early in his career does not measure up to the 1960s standards for hardball. In 1963, the historian James MacGregor Burns wrote an influential book, “The Deadlock of Democracy,” about the immovable resistance of Southern Democratic committee chairmen...
CNBC, March 30, 2012
...to followers ready, willing, and sometimes even able to push them from their perch. Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She was the founding executive...
Individual.com, January 30, 2012
...asks. "Now I'm reading the second book in a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It's by James MacGregor Burns. He was on the faculty at Williams (College) when I was there, and he was a prominent historian. This book, 'Roosevelt -- The Soldier of...
Skidmore College, January 23, 2012
...calls this new edition "The single best book of readings on leadership around—by far." And Leadership author James MacGregor Burns, calls the book "A wide-ranging, sophisticated, and illuminating collection of recent work on leadership, brilliantly...
Austin American Statesman, December 5, 2011
...his two terms) contributed to the rise of partisan divisions that his successor, John Adams, deepened. As historian James MacGregor Burns writes in his new book, “Packing the Court,” Adams saw the Supreme Court “as a vehicle to crush opposition.”...
The New Republic Online, November 3, 2011
...as an anti-partisan who held party hacks in disdain—or so a few liberal writers and historians such as James MacGregor Burns have persuaded themselves. But Kennedy relished being his party’s chieftain, and astutely understood the imperatives of party...
Berkshire Eagle, February 16, 2012
...the reading list that has piled up while I wrote. First up is "Transforming Leadership" by hometown hero James MacGregor Burns, then "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," the collected works of H.P. Lovecraft, and rereading the entire George R.R....
Sustainable Business Oregon, February 9, 2012
...elsewhere — where impacts are much greater — of the green building innovations that Oregonians pioneered. In 1978, James MacGregor Burns published the seminal classic, "Leadership," in which he introduced the distinction between transactional and...
Individual.com, January 30, 2012
...asks. "Now I'm reading the second book in a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It's by James MacGregor Burns. He was on the faculty at Williams (College) when I was there, and he was a prominent historian. This book, 'Roosevelt -- The Soldier of...
Skidmore College, January 23, 2012
...calls this new edition "The single best book of readings on leadership around—by far." And Leadership author James MacGregor Burns, calls the book "A wide-ranging, sophisticated, and illuminating collection of recent work on leadership, brilliantly...
Austin American Statesman, December 5, 2011
...his two terms) contributed to the rise of partisan divisions that his successor, John Adams, deepened. As historian James MacGregor Burns writes in his new book, “Packing the Court,” Adams saw the Supreme Court “as a vehicle to crush opposition.”...
South Africa Star, December 2, 2011
...There are subtler ways of neutralising one’s actual or potential political challengers. US historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns, amongst others, has written about how incumbents can manipulate the channels of opportunity in order to...
Kaieteur News, November 25, 2011
...into the fabric of every civilized society and constitute the roots of every organization that has endured.? James MacGregor Burns goes even further. He limits leadership to those situations ?when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that...
