![]() ![]() So, Professor Burns, or Jim, I’d like to ask your permission to record this interview, to have the interview transcribed, and to deposit the recorded interview and the transcription in the IUPUI Special Collections and Archives for the use of patrons. ![]() Also in the room is Carol Madison, Director of the Tobias Center. I’m interviewing Professor Burns in a room at the Williams Inn on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. His book, Leadership, published in 1978, is the seminal work in the field of leadership studies. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Roosevelt: The Lion and The Fox, published in 1956 and Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom, published in 1970. Professor Burns is a Distinguished Scholar of American Presidents and of Leadership. He’s presently the Woodrow Wilson Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Williams College. ![]() ![]() He attended the London School of Economics, and he’s taught at Williams College for most of his career. Professor Burns earned his doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University in 1947. I’m a Professor of History and Director of Oral History for the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence at Indiana University, and I have the privilege today to be interviewing Professor James MacGregor Burns. SCARPINO: As I said when the recorder was off, I’ll begin with the statement. ![]()
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