{"product_id":"book-bkdu","title":"Forged in Crisis","description":"An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of readers—including those in government, business, education, and the arts—\u003ci\u003eForged in Crisis, \u003c\/i\u003eby celebrated Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eShe begins each of the book’s five sections by showing her protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith; Carson racing against the cancer ravaging her in a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential truth: leaders are not born but \u003ci\u003emade\u003c\/i\u003e. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhether it’s read as a repository of great insight or as exceptionally rendered human drama, \u003ci\u003eForged in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a towering achievement.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347289153840,"sku":"BDbkdu","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/267918-bkdu-Square.jpg?v=1734200112","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bkdu","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}