Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Robert Coles





Format: Paperback, 272pp.
ISBN: 9780375758355
Publisher: Random House
Pub. Date: October 2001

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In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership—what it is, and how it is achieved—through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others.

Coles tells how to be a moral leader and shows how the intervention of one person can change the course of history, as well as influence the day-to-day quality of life in our homes, schools, communities, and nation. We need to "hand one another along" in life, says Coles, quoting his friend Walker Percy, and in Lives of Moral Leadership he explores how each of us can be engaged in a continual and mutual life-giving process of personal and national leadership development. Coles discusses how the actions of the American president affect the way people feel about themselves and the country, and-citing the influence of Shakespeare's Henry V on Robert Kennedy, and of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina on his own mother--explains how reading literature can motivate action and growth. The way in which moral leaders emerge today, and for all time, comes vividly to light in this brilliant book by one of America's finest teachers and writers.


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"A timely, perhaps even timeless, summons to examine the question of moral example and rectitude."

—Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School and a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis and the bestselling The Moral Intelligence of Children and The Spiritual Intelligence of Children. He is also the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard. He lives in Massachusetts.


Table of Contents

	Introduction: Stories of Moral Leadership	xi
I	An Effective Moral Leader: Remembering Robert Kennedy	3
II	On Robert Kennedy and Shakespeare's Henry V	40
III	Conrad's Typhoon	46
IV	Moral Integration: Four Stories	54
V	Eliciting the Assent of the Follower: Emerson's Representative Men	116
VI	Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in Tandem: The Moral Leader of a Moral Leader	122
VII	Danilo Dolci, Community Organizer and Writer: The Leader as Loner	152
VIII	Handing Each Other Along: Moral Leadership in Everyday Life	166
IX	Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Will and Moral Transcendence	198
X	The Bond Between Leaders and Followers: Erik Erikson, Gandhi, and Albert Jones, a Boston Bus Driver	204
XI	High and Low Places: Two Presidents and American Children	227
	Afterword	243

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