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What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In her \u201centhralling\u2026fascinating look at a varied group of heroes\u201d (Publishers Weekly), Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable template by which to measure our aspirations and, also, to judge those in our time to whom we’ve given our trust.<\/span><\/p>\n Featuring \u201cfive stand-alone case studies that are well-written and interesting\u201d (The New York Times), Koehn begins each section by showing her protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith; Carson racing against the cancer ravaging her in a bid to save the planet. Readers then learn about each person\u2019s childhood and see the individual growing\u2014step by step\u2014into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader\u2019s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential truth: leaders are not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power and courage to lead resides in each of us.<\/span><\/p>\n Authors:<\/b><\/p>\n Nancy Koehn<\/span><\/p>\n Published In:<\/b><\/p>\n October 03, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview: What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In her \u201centhralling\u2026fascinating look at a varied group of heroes\u201d (Publishers Weekly), Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable template by which to measure our aspirations and, also, to judge those in our time to whom we’ve given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[250],"tags":[256,1923,1924],"class_list":["post-8596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-series","tag-book-series","tag-forged-in-crisis","tag-nancy-koehn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Forged-in-Crisis-January-2019-Book-Series.png?fit=750%2C410&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-2eE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8598,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions\/8598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}