Today is the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s classic speech, “Citizenship in a Republic.” It’s best known now for the immortal “In the Arena” quotation that summed up TR’s approach to leadership and life.
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‘Citizens of London’ by Lynne Olson
Lynne Olson is author of the acclaimed Troublesome Young Men (a memorable evocation of the courageous young parliamentarians who put themselves on the line in service of Winston Churchill’s by-no-means-preordained accession to the premiership in 1940).
In her new book, Citizens of London, she again presents a new look at familiar history, focusing on the lives of very human characters engaged in it.
Good Reads for a New Year
Good Reads for a New Year….A must read is When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and The Birth of a New Global Order, by Martin Jacques. This is an important book, notable in its amassing of analysis and information.
Meet Theodore Roosevelt: Read Wagenknecht
Other than–perhaps–in 1910, was there ever a more auspicious time to listen to the lessons of Theodore Roosevelt?
TR’s project of leadership, service and national character are sorely needed today.
Just in time there’s a new release of a neglected classic, The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edward Wagenknecht.
‘Woodrow Wilson’ by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
John Milton Cooper Jr. is one of America’s most respected historians. Given his focus on Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, it’s fitting that Cooper is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, in a state that was a national leader in those crowded years.
Cooper’s new book, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, is a masterpiece.
‘Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt’ by Douglas Brinkley
Whole Foods Leadership Challenge
Richard Norton Smith on Presidential Leadership
My friend, historian Richard Norton Smith, has a fine piece on presidential leadership at Knowledge@Wharton.
Matt Lewis: Obama’s Presidential Leadership
Thanks to my friend Matt Lewis for including a reference to Reagan on Leadership in his fine op-ed on presidential leadership.
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