Power and Personality

"A trailblazing study that has mapped out new ways of understanding politicians and power, democracy and leadership, political systems and political personality-by the foremost intellect in American political science." -James MacGregor Burns

Power is an interpersonal situation: those who hold power depend on a continuing stream of empowering responses. Are there "born leaders" and "born followers"? Is there a basic political type, or a certain kind of personality that seeks power? What impli...