Leadership Through the Ages
London: Alexander Maclehose & Co., 1935. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. vii, 354, [2] pages. Index. Occasional footnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Lieutenant General Sir George Fletcher MacMunn. KCB, KCSL, DSO, was a British General, scholar, and was the Warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead, from 1929 until his death in 1952. He was born on 14 August 1869. He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1888 and was a Major-General by 1917. He served in Upper Burma, South Africa, India, with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. For his services in the Great War at the Dardanelles and in Mesopotamia, he was mentioned in despatches 10 times. He retired in 1925 and became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery, 1927-39, and Commissioner of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1932-38, and Warden of Sackville College from 1929-52. Whilst at Sackville College, he served with the Home Guard, 1940-42. He wrote articles and novels on military and historical themes. The author wrote that "In endeavouring to study the secret of the World's great leaders through the ages, rather than their biography, there will be two matters to present: first the circumstances; second the secret. The inclination as we ponder of leaders and leadership, is to think of the famous men of acton, and the great statesmen and commaders, great victors and empire-builders. ... They bulk larger in charm and circumstance, but the same principles and gifts subliminted to other purpsoe, must equally drive those who lead in the walks of peace, and religion, and who turn men's minds to the channels that await them.... The occasions which bring forth leaders must of necessity be very varied, but it is safe to say that there must nearly always be some crisis in national life. ... But a leader must not only be able to lead but must be able to build.... But when all is said and done, however wise, however clever, however courageous, yet to every leader than has taken the world or a people to great things there must be some intangible quality that is psychological and that we in modern slang so often rfer to as 'it'. "It" without judgment is no use.... Among the many forms of the psychological 'it' there is perhaps none so important as oratory--to explain what you want and put your own verve and enthsiasm over your hearers." Among the leaders discussed are: Moses, Alexander the Great, Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, Dowager Empress of China, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Victoria, Disraeli, Mussolini and Hitler. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Leadership, Moses, Alexander the Great, Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, Dowager Empress of China, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Victoria, Disraeli, Mussolini, Hitler, Oratory, Characteristics
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