James MacGregor Burns Audio Books

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns devoted his legendary career to the study of leadership in all its aspects - from politics to business.

James MacGregor Burns's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.

Wealthy Virginia planter, revolutionary general, and founding president, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time....

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II.

For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. Now he turns his eye to an institution of government that he believes has become more powerful---and more partisan---than the Founding Fathers ever intended: the Supreme Court.

Transforming Leadership focuses on the ways that leaders such as Ghandi, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Gorbachev emerged from being ordinary “transactional” deal makers to becoming dynamic agents of major social change who empower their followers.