Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness

This was an honest mistake. I read the synopsis in Amazon and found it cheaper here. I was under the impression that it would be, well, profiles on important leaders, but it really wasn't. The book (which has a different cover here from the one in Amazon) is completely focused on Americans. There's nothing on Napoleon, Caesar, Simon Bolivar, or any other person who had made history. It also leaves the impression that the US has been ruling the world for the past 100 years or more. At some point, it even suggests that the WWI was won by the US, and that, being such an almighty power, any other mistakes or losses (e.g. Vietnam, stalemate in Korea), are only attributable to the presidents involved. Also, as such an American centric book, there are profiles on people nobody else in the world knows, e.g. John Joseph McGraw. Very disappointed with it, even more because I'm a huge Walter Isaacson fan.

some chapters are much better written than others. overall good and I learned a good deal.

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