Inventing Leadership: The Challenge of Democracy (New Horizons in Leadership Studies)

The book "Democracy's Fictions" by Tom Wren is a masterpiece of intellectual history that explores the philosophical and historical foundations of democracy in a compelling way.

With sparkling and graceful writing, Wren makes a potentially dry subject come alive with wit and insight, addressing issues that are extremely timely as the United States endeavors to advance democracy in the Middle East.

This important analysis of democratic thought and treatise on leadership strips down our "fictions" concerning these domains in an extensive deconstruction of both classical and modern thought, revealing a dialectical awakening and a practical new vision of citizen participation and enlightened leadership.

Highly recommended for teachers and students of political theory, as well as the general reader and armchair politician, this book is an excellent scholarly work that is well written and highly relevant within the context of contemporary politics.