Leadership
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Presents more than one hundred stories and essays that highlight the relationship between literature and leadership and creativity and strategic thinking, featuring works from a variety of writers.
Elizabeth D. Samet verdiept zich in de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen literatuur en maatschappelijke structuren, met name in de militaire context en de evoluerende aard van instemming. Haar wetenschappelijk werk onderzoekt hoe gehoorzaamheid en vrijwillige deelname de Amerikaanse geschiedenis hebben gevormd, en gebruikt literaire analyse om de ervaringen van soldaten en hun betrokkenheid bij thema's als vrede en oorlog te belichten. Met uitgebreide onderwijservaring aan West Point biedt Samet een uniek perspectief op de concepten van plicht, eer en identiteit. Haar werk nodigt lezers uit om na te denken over de diepgaande wisselwerking tussen individueel geweten, burgerplicht en morele kaders.



Presents more than one hundred stories and essays that highlight the relationship between literature and leadership and creativity and strategic thinking, featuring works from a variety of writers.
Includes a New Afterword by the Author A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A USA Today Best Book of 2007 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2007 What does it mean to teach literature to a soldier? How does it prepare a young man or woman for combat? At West Point, Elizabeth Samet reads classic and modern works of literature with America's future military elite, and in this stirring memoir she chronicles the ways in which war has transformed her relationship to the books she and her students read together. While fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Samet's former students share their thoughts on the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, and the films of Bogart and Cagney. And their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom. Soldier's Heart is an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.