Contents
Introduction
I. Do Leaders Change History?
1. Thomas Carlyle: The Leader as Hero
2. Herbert Spencer: The Great Man Theory Breaks Down
3. William James: Great Men and Their Environment
4. Sidney Hook: The Eventful Man and the Event-Making Man
5. Fred Greenstein: Personality and Politics
6. Robert C. Tucker: The Dictator and Totalitarianism
II. Why Do Leaders Lead?
7. Harold D. Lasswell: The Development of Political Man
8. Alexander L. George: Power as a Compensatory Value
9. E. Victor Wolfenstein: The Revolutionary Personality
III. Why Do Followers Follow?
10. Joseph Campbell: The Hero in Myth and Dream
11. Sigmund Freud: The Great Man
12. T. W. Adorno et al.: The "Authoritarian" Syndrome
13. Erich Fromm: The Emergence of the Individual and the Ambiguity of Freedom
14. Stanley Milgrim: The Dilemma of Obedience
15. Fred H. Willhoite, Jr.: Primates and Political Authority
16. Sigmund Freud: The Leader as Group Ideal
17. Robert Michels: The Impossibility of Direct Government
IV. What Are the Types of Leaders?
18. Harold D. Lasswell: Democratic Leadership
19. Joseph A. Schumpeter: Democracy as Competition for Leadership
20. Alexander Hamilton: Federalist Paper No. 69
21. Hannah Arendt: The Totalitarian Leader
22. Crane Brinton: The Accession of the Extremists
23. Max Weber: Types of Authority
24. Ann Ruth Willner: Charismatic Leadership
25. Eugene Lewis: The Political Leader as Entrepreneur
26. Robert C. Tucker: Nonconstituted Leaders
V. How Do Leaders and Followers Relate?
27. Georg Simmel: Subordination Under an Individual
28. Bruce Mazlish: Leader and Led
29. James MacGregor Burns: The Difference Between Power Wielders and Leaders
30. J. R. P. French, Jr., and B. Raven: The Bases of Social Power
31. Talcott Parsons: Types of Influence
32. Irving L. Janis: Groupthink
33. Erik H. Erikson: On Followers
VI. Is There a Leadership for All Seasons?
34. Plato: The Philosopher King
35. Plutarch: Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus
36. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
37. Kurt Lewin: Authoritarianism and Democratic Leadership
38. Dennis F. Thompson: Moral Responsibility of Public Officials
39. James MacGregor Burns: Leadership
VII. Leaders on Leadership
40. Woodrow Wilson: Leaders of Men
41. Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
42. V. I. Lenin: What Is to Be Done?
43. M. K. Gandhi: Satyagraha
Biographical Notes