Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emers

Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emersons 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic – Daniel J. Boorstin

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