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Reading List - Leadership

Blanchard, Kenneth, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi. (1985) Leadership and the One Minute Manager. New York, NY: William Morrow & Company

Boritt, Gabor. (2006) The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech that Nobody Knows. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Bowen, Scott. (2008) The Vampire Survival Guide: How to Fight and Win, Against the Undead. New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing

Canfield, Jack and Mark Victor Hansen. (1993) Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications Inc.

Carnegie, Dale. (2006) How to Win Friends & Influence People. (70th Anniversary/Revised Edition) New York, NY: Pocket Books

Drukman, Mason. (1997) Wayne Morse: A Political Biography. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press

Ellul, Jacques. (1965) Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. New York, NY: Vintage Books

Fulghum, Robert. (1989) All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon thoughts on common things. New York, NY: Villard Books

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. (2005) Team of Rivals: The political genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster

Heider, John. (1985) The Tao of Leadership: Leadership Strategies for a New age. New York, NY: Bantam Books

Humes, James C. (2002) Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press

Isikoff, Michael and David Corn. (2006) Hubris: The Inside story of the Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press

Kazin, Michael. (2006) A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf (Random House)

Kennedy, John F. (1964) Profiles in Courage. (Commemorative Edition) New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers Inc.

Kennedy, Robert F. (1967) To Seek a Newer World. New York, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. 

Kessler, Bart. (2008) The Challenges of Leadership and Command. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: USAF Air Command and Staff College

Matthews, Christopher. (1988) Hardball: How Politics is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game. New York, NY: Summit Books

McCullough, David. (1992) Truman. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster

McDowell, Josh. (1977) More Than a Carpenter. Wheaton, IL: Living Books

O'Neill, Tip and Gary Hymel (1994) All Politics is Local: And Other Rules of the Game. New York, NY: Random House

Roberts, Wess. (2002) Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun. New York, NY: Warner Books Inc.

Roth-Douquet, Kathy and Frank Schaeffer. (2006) AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service - and How it Hurts Our Country. New York, NY: Collins

Ricks, Thomas E. (2007) FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York, NY: Penguin Books

Safire, William. (1997) Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company Inc.

Walth, Brent. (1995) Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall & The Oregon Story. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press

Wren, J. Thomas. (1995) Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages. New York, NY: The Free Press