A Collective Biography of Twelve World-Class Leaders A Study on Developing Exemplary Leaders

This collective biography on twelve world-class leaders provides timeless principles on how families, as well as educational, civic, religious, and military organizations, can facilitate the development of exemplary leaders. The biographies and autobiographies of great leaders reveal the importance of an involved parent, happy childhood, plethora of apprenticeships, rich formal and informal education, a steady stream of prodigious patrons, gracious critics, and a favorable fate.

John R. Shoup is Associate Dean of the Dr. Bonnie C. Metcalf School of Education at California Baptist University.