Global Poverty: The Response of Leadership

James MacGregor Burns is author of Transforming Leadership: The Pursuit of Happiness.

James MacGregor Burns is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian. Description of show: Since 1978, James MacGregor Burns has pursued the topic of leadership in a series of award-winning books. In his latest publication, Transforming Leadership: The Pursuit of Happiness, he examines how leaders must adjust to the realities of a globalizing world. In this program, he focuses on the type of leadership needed to address third world poverty and inequality.