Stanley McChrystal, with Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone
PositiveThe ScotsmanCompelling ... Sponsored by Vince The biographies are engrossing, with compelling, detail-rich anecdotes that vividly bring the characters off the page ... The inclusion of photos and paintings enhances the storytelling, even if the charisma of such images threatens to distract from the book’s central tenet that circumstances create leadership as much as personal qualities ... The understandable difficulty in narrowing down the core list from hundreds is highlighted, and yet you feel the aim of presenting a diverse representation has been achieved ... Leaders may offer a surfeit of detail on some of the lesser-known characters that will annoy some, but all in all this is an engaging, highly readable work.
