Strong leadership - Graham Little

What do we want when we seek a strong leader? How do strong leaders differ from other leaders? What limitations are they likely to have? "Strong Leadership" draws portraits of three political leaders of recent years in an attempt to answer these questions. Margaret Thatcher may well be the most significant world leader of the last decade. Ronald Reagan, while seeming implausible in the role, completed two terms in the world's most powerful office. Malcolm Fraser was the first of the trio to re-introduce "strong leadership" into the political agenda and has gone on to oppose its most controversial face, the system of government-maintained racism in South Africa. In this book Graham Little writes of the lives and ideologies of these three leaders. Analyzing their work-styles and relations with colleagues and other people, he sketches the leading characteristics of their personalities. Finally, he examines each leader's childhood and adolescence, and gauges the influence of their parents and siblings on their personality and leadership qualities.