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James macgregor burns 19182014 was a bestselling american historian and political scientist whose work earned both the national book award and a pulitzer prize. Leadership harper perennial political classics ebook. James macgregor burns a systematic study, ranging from the salons of eighteenthcentury paris to the revolutionary cadres of the present century, views leadership as dialectic, synthetic, collective, and. Leadership, burns pioneering study, introduces the highly influential theory of transfor. James macgregor burns 19182014 received his doctorate in political science from harvard.
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