The Splendid and the Vile When It Comes to Leadership


The story of  Winston Churchill's stubborn and contagious defiance against all odds after Hitler's defeat of France and his Luftwaffe's pummeling of London is a familiar one that acquires renewed urgency in Erik Larson's masterful telling, and as we yearn for examples of inspired leadership in our own time of crisis. Larson's book The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz also caught Future Tense's attention for its portrayal of Churchill as a leader who understood technology (or at least the importance of  empowering technologists and holding them to account) and of the British prime minister as a man who truly mastered the art of working from home. 

Featuring Erik LarsonAuthor, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020), Devil in the White City (2004), and Andrés MartinezEditorial Director, Future Tense.

Date:
May 05, 2020
Run time:
0:58:47
Location:
Online
Presented by:
Future Tense