Character counts : leadership qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn / Os Guinness, editor. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, ©1999. - 160 pages ; 22 cm

Introduction / A leader for the multitude / To bigotry no sanction / A life of significance / A man who changed his times / The spiritual growth of a public man / Theologian of American anguish / The writer underground / The oak and the calf /Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Os Guinness -- Alonzo L. McDonald ; Paul F. Boller, Jr. -- J. Douglas Holladay ; John Pollock -- Alonzo L. McDonald ; Elton Trueblood -- Alonzo L. McDonald ; George Washington. William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.

"Character Counts contains brief biographical and reflective chapters about four remarkable world figures who not only withstood the extreme adversities of their offices and circumstances but flourished and grew under pressure to become people who made a difference in their times."--Jacket.

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Washington, George, 1732-1799 --Psychology.
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Psychology.
Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.


Christian biography.
Character--Case studies.
Leadership.


Case studies.

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