King of the Mountain : The Nature of Political Leadership

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King of the Mountain : The Nature of Political Leadership

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 496 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780813122335
  • DDC分類 303.3

基本説明

Suggests that leaders of nations act remarkably like monkeys and apes in the way they come to power, govern, and rule.

Full Description

"People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too."

King of the Mountain presents the startling findings of Arnold M. Ludwig's eighteen-year investigation into why people want to rule. The answer may seem obvious -- power, privilege, and perks -- but any adequate answer also needs to explain why so many rulers cling to power even when they are miserable, trust nobody, feel besieged, and face almost certain death. Ludwig's results suggest that leaders of nations tend to act remarkably like monkeys and apes in the way they come to power, govern, and rule.

Profiling every ruler of a recognized country in the twentieth century -- over 1,900 people in all -- Ludwig establishes how rulers came to power, how they lost power, the dangers they faced, and the odds of their being assassinated, committing suicide, or dying a natural death. Then, concentrating on a smaller sub-set of 377 rulers for whom more extensive personal information was available, he compares six different kinds of leaders, examining their characteristics, their childhoods, and their mental stability or instability to identify the main predictors of later political success.

Ludwig's penetrating observations, though presented in a lighthearted and entertaining way, offer important insight into why humans have engaged in war throughout recorded history as well as suggesting how they might live together in peace.

Contents

W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Liberal
An Africana Philosophical Reading of Du Bois's Political Thought
Alightings of Poetry: The Dialectics of Voice and Silence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Narrative of Double-Consciousness
The Political Miracle: Black Reconstruction and the End(s) of Whiteness"
The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk
Honest and Earnest Criticism as the Soul of Democracy: Du Bois's Style of Democratic Reasoning
A Democracy of Differences: Knowledge and the Unknowable in Du Bois's Theory of Democratic Governance
The Cost of Liberty: Sacrifice and Survival in Du Bois's John Brown
On Democratic Leadership and Social Change: Positioning Du Bois in the Shadow of a Gray To-come
A Splendid Failure? Black Reconstruction and Du Bois's Tragic Vision of Politics
'Love is God and Work is his Prophet:' Decolonial Extension and Gandhian Exploration in Du Bois' Interwar Years