To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!