The Enablers: How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America

by Barbara Kellerman

Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic will forever be remembered as a pivotal event in American history. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on leadership and followership, this book centers on the first six months of the pandemic and the crises that ran rampant. The chapters focus less on the former president, Donald Trump, than on his followers: on people complicit in his miserable mismanagement of the crisis in public health. Barbara Kellerman provides clear and compelling evidence that Trump was not entirely to blame for everything that went wrong. Many others were responsible including his base, party, administration, inner circle, Republican elites, members of the media, and even medical experts. Far too many surrendered to the president's demands, despite it being obvious his leadership was fatally flawed. The book testifies to the importance of speaking truth to power, and a willingness to take risks properly to serve the public interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108838320
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/19/2021
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Barbara Kellerman was founding Executive Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership and a member of the Kennedy School faculty for over twenty years. She is author, co-author, and editor of many books on leadership and followership, including Leaders Who Lust, Followership, Bad Leadership, The End of Leadership, and Professionalizing Leadership.

Table of Contents

Part I. Trump's Tribe: 1. Base; 2. Party; 3. Administration; 4. Inner Circle; Part II. Virus Crisis: 5. Prequel to the Pandemic; 6. Sequence of the Pandemic; 7. Science of the Pandemic; 8. Politics of the Pandemic; Part III. Trump's Team: 9. Vice President, Cabinet; 10. Senior Advisors; 11. Senators, Governors, Media; 12. Medical Experts; Epilogue: Enabler Effect.

Editorial Reviews

An eye-opening look at how bad leaders – one in particular – rely on bad followers.' Kirkus

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