Syllabus

LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY

History 196S.06
Spring 2004

Instructor: Gerald L. Wilson
684-2865
gwilson@asdean.duke.edu

Syllabus (Subject to modification as appropriate)

Session I Introduction: Course Requirements, Questions to be considered

Session II The Prince (Machiavelli)

Session III Leadership, (Burns)
Prologue: Part I, Chapter 1 & 2
Part III Chapters 6, 7,8,9
Part IV Chapters 10 – 14

Session IV The Ox Bow Incident (Clark)

Session V The Ox Bow Incident (Clark)

Session VI Discussion of Paper Topics

Session VII All The King’s Men (Warren)

Session VIII All The King’s Men (Warren)

Session IX Jimmy Carter – Failure or Statesman? (Handouts)

Session X Dilemmas of Leadership
(Handouts) - Jefferson and Slavery
FDR & the Jews
Kennedy and 13 Days In October

Session XI Eyewitness to Power (Gergen)

Session XII Presidential Leadership (Handouts)

Session XII Certain Trumphets (Wills)

Session XIV Public and Private Ethnics of Leaders (Film)

Session XV Lord of the Flies (Golding)

Session XVI A Parable for our Times

Session XVII Thinking in Time (Neustadt and May)

Class presentations as assigned for the remainder of the semester.