In Leadership, presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin provides an essential and accessible roadmap for aspiring and established leaders in every field and for all of us in our everyday lives. Applying five decades of study, profound insights and masterful storytelling, Goodwin demonstrates how four exceptional leaders—U. S. presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson— overcame adversity and transcended personal ambition to enlarge the lives of others. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership guided by moral purpose, collaboration, compromise, and civility take on a singular urgency. --back cover