Grey Eminence

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407065610
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grey Eminence written by Aldous Huxley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to sainthood and a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the unspeakable horrors of the Thirty Years' War. In his masterful biography, Huxley explores how an intensely religious man could lead such a life and how he reconciled the seemingly opposing moral systems of religion and politics.

Author : Edward Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781581072037
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grey Eminence written by Edward Cox and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those who have heard of him, Fox Conner's name is synonymous with mentorship. He is the "grey eminence" within the Army whose influence helped to shape the careers of George Patton, George Marshall, and most notably, President Eisenhower. Most of what is known about Conner comes from stories about his relationship with Eisenhower. Despite a distinguished military career that spanned four decades, Conner's life and his service to the Army and the nation are revealed primarily through passing references in the memoirs of other great men. A study of Conner's life and his method for identifying talented subordinates and developing them for future strategic leadership positions offers contemporary readers a highly salient example to emulate. This book combines existing scholarship with long-forgotten references and unpublished original sources to achieve a more comprehensive picture of this dedicated public servant. The portrait that emerges provides a four-step model for developing strategic leaders that still holds true today. First and foremost, Conner became a master of his craft through a process of personal and professional self-development as a lifelong learner. Second, he recognized and recruited talented subordinates. Third, he encouraged and challenged those protégés to develop their strengths and overcome their weaknesses. Finally, he wasn't afraid to break the rules of the organization to do it.

Author : Robert Francis O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Grey Eminence written by Robert Francis O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Vincent Blanchard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802778534
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Éminence written by Jean-Vincent Blanchard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Niccolò Machiavelli. Truly larger than life, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through his own story and through his portrayal as a ruthless political mastermind in Alexandre Dumas's classic The Three Musketeers. Forging a nation-state amid the swirl of unruly, grasping nobles, widespread corruption, wars of religion, and an ambitious Habsburg empire, Richelieu's hands were always full. Serving his fickle monarch, he mastered the politics of absolute power. Jean-Vincent Blanchard's rich and insightful new biography brings Richelieu fully to life in all his complexity. At times cruel and ruthless, Richelieu was always devoted to creating a lasting central authority vested in the power of monarchy, a power essential to France's position on the European stage for the next two centuries. Richelieu's careful understanding of politics as spectacle speaks to contemporary readers; much of what he accomplished was promoted strategically through his great passion for theater and literature, and through the romance of power. Éminence offers a rich portrait of a fascinating man and his era, and gives us a keener understanding of the dark arts of politics.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grey Eminence written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daisuke Aizawa
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1975325192
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eminence in Shadow, Vol. 1 (manga) written by Daisuke Aizawa and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cid Kagenou has a dream. Not of being some typical protagonist or the Final Boss—he has his eyes set on becoming a hidden mastermind working in the shadows! Now that he’s been reborn in another world, Cid has been hard at work building the perfect stage to act out his long-desired role. The only issue? His imaginary adversaries and plot devices seem to actually exist in this new realm…and he alone is left in the dark!

Author : Friedrich von Schlegel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907722
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments written by Friedrich von Schlegel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349046159
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief written by Patrick Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-06-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daisuke Aizawa
Publisher : Yen On
ISBN 13 : 9781975359058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eminence in Shadow, Vol. 1 (light novel) written by Daisuke Aizawa and published by Yen On. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One big fat lie and a few twisted truths Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a fi nal boss. He'd rather lie low as a minor character until it's prime time to reveal he's a mastermind...or at least, do the next best thing-pretend to be one! And now that he's been reborn into another world, he's ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down. Well, as luck would have it, these imaginary adversaries turn out to be the real deal-and everyone knows the truth but him!

Author : Andreas Kessaris
Publisher : MiroLand
ISBN 13 : 9781771834919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Butcher of Park Ex written by Andreas Kessaris and published by MiroLand. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kessaris manages to convey a sense of shared history through the prose itself, bringing the Montreal immigrant experience to life with wry humour and painstaking attention to detail. --Montreal Review of Books The Butcher of Park Ex is a humorous collection of personal stories inspired by the author's life growing up in Montreal's Park Extension neighbourhood, with Greek immigrant parents who never quite adapted to life in their new country. Never really fitting in with his ethnic community, and never feeling like part of mainstream Quebec or Canadian society, he sets out on an over forty-year search for answers, encountering amazingly interesting people and unique misadventures while trying to navigate a world where he is constantly the odd man out.