Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 1942 |
Geburtsort | Davenport, Iowa, U.S. |
Todesdatum | Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2024 |
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Beschreibung | James Albert Smith Leach (born October 15, 1942) is an American academic and former politician. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (1977–2007). In 2022, he broke with the Republican Party and endorsed a Democrat running the represent his former district. |
America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
