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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 31, 2003–The Atlantic Month Press has announced publication of “Transforming Leadership” by Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning political scientist James MacGregor Burns. Burns is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government, Emeritus, at Williams College.
“Burns is to leadership studies as Peter F. Drucker is to management and Sigmund Freud is to psychology,” Fredric Jablin, acting dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, told The Chronicle of Higher Education. “He is the dean, the wise pioneer.”
In 1978 Burns published “Leadership,” the book that became the cornerstone of the field of leadership studies and of hundreds of leadership programs in business and government.
Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe’s absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment’s ideals of liberty and democracy. He looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds – Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gorbachev, and others.
The book culminates in a bold and innovative plan to address the greatest global leadership challenge of the twenty-first century: the long-intractable problem of global poverty.
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Williams College is consistently ranked one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges. The college’s 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their undergraduate teaching. The achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in research. Admission decisions are made regardless of a student’s financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted. Founded in 1793, it is the second oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college is located in Williamstown, Mass. To visit the college on the Internet: www.williams.edu
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Published March 31, 2003
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