Derek Leebaert
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Nationality | American |
Genre | non-fiction |
Derek Leebaert is an American technology executive who writes books on history and politics, which evoke insights on leadership. He won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation, and he's a founder of the National Museum of the United States Army. He is also a director of the National Historical Society.
Leebaert's latest book is Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made. It is a Wall Street Journal "Best Book of 2023" and "recommended reading" from McKinsey. Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith praises it as "having done the near impossible--craft[ing] a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle. . . .A book to regard in the same breath as the classics of Sherwood, Schlesinger, and Burns." The Guardian reviewed it as "masterful."
Life
Leebaert cofounded Linguateq (telecom billing software) which was sold to SONUS Networks, and he currently works as a management consultant, focusing on the IT, healthcare, and defense sectors. He cofounded the Swiss advisory firm Management Alignment Partners (MAP AG) in 2005 and, from 2009-2018, he was a trustee of Providence Health System (part of Ascension Health). He remains involved in the national debate over access to quality healthcare.
Leebaert's book on elite military operations, To Dare and To Conquer has been on various
He holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt (history/economics), an M.A. from Columbia University (international affairs), and a D.Phil. in political economy from Oxford University (1983). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs, where he also captained the university's pistol team. From 1996 to 2000, he taught the annual Management of Technology class in Georgetown University's MBA program, and then annually, from 2001-2010, he taught "The Price of U.S. Global Engagement" for Georgetown's Department of Government.
In Washington, Leebaert served as chief economist of CBEMA, now the Information Industry Technology Council, and was appointed a Smithsonian Fellow. He is a founding editor of three enduring periodicals: International Security, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and The International Economy. He was in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, and has been a foreign policy adviser to the presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship.
Works
- The Fifty-Year Wound: How America’s Cold War Victory Shapes Our World Boston : Little, Brown, 2002.
- To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations from Achilles to Al Qaeda New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
- Magic and Mayhem: the Delusions of American foreign policy from Korea to Afghanistan, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
- Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018.
- Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made, St. Martin's Press, 2023. OCLC 1310772643
- Edited
- European Security : prospects for the 1980s, Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, 1981. OCLC 615033433
- Soviet Military Thinking, London; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1981.
- The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, MIT Press, 1998.
- The Future of Software, MIT Press, 1995
- Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications, MIT Press, 1991
References
- ^ "Bloomberg - Executive Profile, Derek Leebaert D. Phil. Director, Providence Hospital Corporation". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ THE FIFTY-YEAR WOUND by Derek Leebaert | Kirkus Reviews.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ Kaiser, Robert G. (October 10, 2010). "Book review: 'Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan' by Derek Leebaert". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
- ^ "Coffey | Magic & Mayem". www.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ Evans, Harold (October 19, 2018). "How the United States Achieved World Leadership". The New York Times. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
- ^ GRAND IMPROVISATION by Derek Leebaert | Kirkus Reviews.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
External links
- Postwar Delusions: Why America Keeps Making Mistakes Abroad by Derek Leebaert
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "Derek Leebaert". The Globalist. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Derek Leebaert". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
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