Pick up any textbook that focuses on human history and you will most probably begin to read a critical assessment of the leaders of the period under study. It is almost axiomatic that history is made by leaders, and in order for later generations to understand what happened to create the foundations for their social, psychological, and physical existence they must understand what the individuals charged with the responsibility for making choices on behalf of large segments of humanity did or did not do. In the past century, the study of leadership itself has taken many turns that have introduced new ways of understanding the phenomenon called leading
