Warriors, Rebels, and Saints

"This book is that rare thing among ‘leadership’ titles: a truly original concept...[A]n incredibly well-researched and lively read."—The Financial Times

“A plea for the importance of history in the study of leadership.”—Kirkus

“Moshik Temkin brings together deep historical knowledge, cultural comparison, and sophisticated analysis of what makes leadership, and how individual leaders both reflect their society and shape it in turn. This is a book both empathetic and gripping on a subject of huge importance in our turbulent times.”—Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-45

“Ranging across the centuries and around the globe, Moshik Temkin engages questions about leadership that could not be more timely.  In exploring how history both produces and constrains leaders, he offers a thoroughly engaging meditation on a compelling array of individuals who shaped the eras in which they lived. The result is a fascinating, illuminating and cautionary meditation on leadership.”—Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency

“In this gem of a book, the accomplished historian and teacher Moshik Temkin performs the crucial task of placing the art of leadership in its historical context. The result is a book chockfull of insights, showing how a careful and unsparing study of past leaders—those who had great power and those who didn’t—can help us identify the attributes we need to see in their successors today.”—Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University