leadership qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn Guinness, Os. text biography Case studies. miu Grand Rapids, Mich Baker Books ©1999 1999 monographic eng

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160 pages ; 22 cm "Character Counts contains brief biographical and reflective chapters about four remarkable world figures who not only withstood the extreme adversities of their offices and circumstances but flourished and grew under pressure to become people who made a difference in their times."--Jacket. Introduction / Os Guinness -- George Washington. A leader for the multitude / Alonzo L. McDonald ; To bigotry no sanction / Paul F. Boller, Jr. -- William Wilberforce. A life of significance / J. Douglas Holladay ; A man who changed his times / John Pollock -- Abraham Lincoln. The spiritual growth of a public man / Alonzo L. McDonald ; Theologian of American anguish / Elton Trueblood -- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. The writer underground / Alonzo L. McDonald ; The oak and the calf /Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Os Guinness, editor. Washington, George 1732-1799 Psychology Wilberforce, William 1759-1833 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Psychology Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich 1918-2008 Christian biography Character Case studies Leadership BR1702 .C48 1999 270.8/092/2 B 0801058244 (paper) 9780801058240 (paper) 98044191 DLC 980910 20210111151204.0 39905614 eng