What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
by Chad Sanders
Recommended by Brene Brown
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
A powerful exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions. ?I remember the day I realized I couldn?t play a white guy as well as a white guy. It felt like a death sentence for my career.? When Chad Sanders landed his first job in...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
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Brene Brown
“.@Chad_Sand's book, "Black Magic" is daring, urgent, and transformative. Not only did the stories and interviews forever change how I think about leadership & culture, they challenged me as a parent, friend, and citizen. Join us on the Dare to Lead podcast”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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