Leadership
- 718 stránek
- 26 hodin čtení
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 Knihy
Elizabeth D. Samet se zaměřuje na propojení literatury a společenských otázek, zejména v kontextu vojenské služby a občanské angažovanosti. Její práce zkoumá, jak se souhlas a poslušnost vyvíjejí v americké historii a jak literatura odráží zkušenosti vojáků a jejich vztah k míru a válce. Díky svému dlouholetému působení na West Pointu nabízí Samet jedinečný pohled na témata cti, povinnosti a identity, zasazený do hluboké literární analýzy. Její psaní vybízí k zamyšlení nad komplexními vztahy mezi jednotlivcem, státem a morálkou.
Soldier's Heart
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
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.
Looking for the Good War
- 384 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení