Introduction----Leadership Intelligence
1. The Paradoxes of Leadership
2 . Definitions and Realities
3. What the Classics Teach About Leadership
4. What War & the Military Teach About Leadership
5. What Business Teaches About Leadership
6. What Politics Teaches About Leadership
7. How Hollywood Showcases Leadership
8 . The Darker/Toxic Side of Leadership
9 . Searching for Leadership Intelligence
Biography
Thomas E. Cronin was a longtime President of Whitman College and interim President of Colorado College. He is an award-winning political scientist, teacher, author and leadership scholar. His recent books include Fireside Chats of a Retired College President, (2025), Writing as a Performing Art (2022) and Imagining a Great Republic: Political Novels and the Idea of America (2018).
Michael A. Genovese is a longtime CNN commentator and President of the Global Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University where he has taught for five decades. He has won multiple awards for his writing and teaching including "The Teacher of the Year Award" from the American Political Science Association. His recent books include The Modern Presidency: Six Debates that Define the Institution (2022) and Presidential Power and Nuclear Arms (2025).
Praise for Leadership Intelligence
“Effective leadership requires lessons from multiple sources. Cronin and Genovese offer a complex yet clear understanding of leadership for student, scholar, and practitioner.”
---Ronald E. Riggio, Kravis Professor of Leadership & Organization Psychology at Claremont McKenna College
Praise for the authors’ previous collaborations:
Leadership Matters (2012)
“This is an extraordinary book. The scholarship is mind-boggling. It is an absolute tour-de-force--one of the most wide-ranging, fascinating, intricate studies of leadership I have ever read."
---Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian
"This is a terrific book---destined to become a classic."
---James O'Toole, Former Executive VP, Aspen Institute
The Paradoxes of the American Presidency (multiple editions (1999-2022):
“One of the most clarifying and brilliant books on presidential leadership...a modern classic."
--- Warren Bennis, University of Southern California
"Instructive, fascinating, thought-provoking and essential reading for any citizen, student of government and everyone at the White House."
--- Edward J. Rollins, Former White House advisor
American Politics Film Festival ( 2025):
"Thunderous applause from Cronin and Genovese’s American Politics Film Festival. Delightful reading, packed with insight, analysis and commentary on over a hundred films that have probed the 'idea of America'."
---David Gray Adler, President of Altura Institute, Idaho
"An absolutely delightful ,provocative and creative book on American political films and important television documentaries."
--- Thane Rosenbaum, Fordham Law School and Founder, Forum on Life, Culture and Society, NYC
