Review of Leaders and leadership

Abstract

Reviews the book, Leaders and leadership by Emory S. Bogardus (see record 1935-01303-000 ). The book is evidently a text for a college course in Sociology. It is difficult for a psychologist to evaluate it from that standpoint and the present review from a psychological viewpoint will naturally be less favorable. It draws its material mainly from biographies, with nothing in the way of actual measurements or ratings by associates. The book has little that will interest the psychologist. There is little reference to anything experimental or to any of the techniques for measuring or rating. The book probably would get some students mildly interested in problems of leadership and might have a slight inspirational flavor. A youth reading biographies for culture or inspiration might find it profitable to read this book in the midst of his program in order to pull together the loose ends of his own thinking and have a little more systematic conception of leadership as revealed in the lives of famous persons. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)