The book, chapter by chapter
Chapter guide
An orientation to each chapter: what it argues, the questions it puts, the concepts it introduces and the cases it works through. These are doorways, not summaries.
The constitutive claim, and why it needs seven chapters
Chapter One: Rhetoric
Chapter Seven: ApplicationPersuasion as the medium in which leadership becomes real
Chapter Two: CharacterWhat leadership consists of when the usual frames fail
Chapter Three: NamingThe political work performed by a single word
Chapter Four: Figure-GroundThe conditions that must exist before leadership is possible
Chapter Five: MethodMethods adequate to a constitutive claim
Chapter Six: EthicsWhat a leader ‘should’ do, and why virtue ethics answers it better
Telling, replotting, reading — and the ethics of each