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21
Geoffrey Howe, “The Margaret Thatcher I Knew: Twenty Personal Insights,”
Guardian
, April 8, 2013,
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/interactive/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-i-knew
.
22
Mikhail Gorbachev, “The Margaret Thatcher I Knew: Twenty Personal Insights,”
Guardian
, April 8, 2013,
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/interactive/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-i-knew
.
23
WGBH, “Oral History: Margaret Thatcher,” Frontline: The Gulf War, PBS.org,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/thatcher/1.html
.
24
Lech Wałęsa, “The Margaret Thatcher I Knew: Twenty Personal Insights,”
Guardian
, April 8, 2013,
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/interactive/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-i-knew
.
25
Clive James, “Thatcher Takes Command,” originally published in the
Observer
, February 9, 1975, CliveJames.com,
http://www.clivejames.com/books/visions/thatcher
.
26
Moore, “The Invincible Mrs. Thatcher.”
Chapter 19
1
M. K. Gandhi,
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), 7.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid., 8.
4
George Orwell,
George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose, 1946–1950
(Jaffrey, NH: Nonpareil, 2000), 465.
5
Gandhi,
An Autobiography
, 94.
6
Ibid., 111.
7
Ibid., 113–14.
8
Ibid., 192–93.
9
Emma Tarlo,
Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 76–78.
10
“Gandhi Invents Spinning Wheel,”
Popular Science Monthly
, December 1931, 60.
11
Stanley A. Wolpert,
Gandhi’s Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 7–8.
12
Orwell,
George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose
, 463.
Chapter 20
1
Joyce Purnick, “Mother Teresa Gains Release of Three Prisoners,”
New York Times
, December 25, 1985,
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/25/nyregion/mother-teresa-gains-release-of-3-prisoners.html
; Associated Press, “Mother Teresa Wants State to Release AIDS Prisoners,”
New York Times
, January 3, 1986,
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/03/nyregion/mother-teresa-wants-state-to-release-aids-prisoners.html
; King Duncan,
The Amazing Law of Influence
(New York: Pelican, 2001), 193; Robert Palestini,
Feminist Theory and Educational Leadership: Much Ado about Something!
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 119; Dale Carnegie, Stuart R. Levine, and Ross Klavan,
The Leader in You
, book excerpt, SimonAndSchuster.com,
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Leader-in-You/Stuart-R-Levine/9780743549240/excerpt
. Note: Some sources for this anecdote indicated that three prisoners were released; others said four prisoners. The
New York Times
listed three prisoners by name, so the authors believe three to be the accurate number.
2
Mother Teresa, with Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed.,
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
(New York: Doubleday Religion, 2007), 44–46.
3
Joseph Langford,
Mother Teresa’s Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own
(Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2008), 44.
4
Palestini,
Feminist Theory and Educational Leadership
, 117.
5
Duncan,
The Amazing Law of Influence
, 193.
6
Kathryn Spink,
Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 37.
7
Palestini,
Feminist Theory and Educational Leadership
, 118–19.
8
Spink,
Mother Teresa
, 55.
9
Dwight Longenecker, “The Day I Met Mother Teresa,” Patheos.com, September 5, 2007,
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2007/09/the-day-i-met-mother-teresa.html
.
10
Associated Press, “Hospital Is Visited by Mother Teresa,”
New York Times
, August 15, 1982,
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/15/world/hospital-is-visited-by-mother-teresa.html
; Ann Rodgers, “Mother Teresa Revered for Putting Others First,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, October 7, 2007,
http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2007/10/07/Mother-Teresa-revered-for-putting-others-first/stories/200710070144
;
Mother Teresa
, a documentary film by Petrie Productions, 1986, created by Ann Petrie, produced and directed by Jeanette Petrie and Ann Petrie, narration by Richard Attenborough.
11
Barbara Smoker, “Mother Teresa—Sacred Cow,”
Freethinker
, February 1980,
https://web.archive.org/web/20140905221240/
http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/07/18/mother-teresa-sacred-cow/
.
12
Mother Teresa, “Mother Teresa’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech,” Oslo, Norway, Catholic Education Resource Center, December 11, 1979,
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/social-justice/mother-teresas-nobel-peace-prize-acceptance-speech.html
.
13
Christopher Hitchens,
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
(New York: Verso, 1995), 64–71.
14
Mother Teresa, with Kolodiejchuk, ed.,
Mother Teresa
, 187.
15
Mark 9:24.
16
Mother Teresa, with Kolodiejchuk, ed.,
Mother Teresa
, 187–88.
17
Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34.
Chapter 21
1
Alexander K. McClure,
Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
(Chicago & Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1901), Project Gutenberg Edition,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2517/2517-h/2517-h.htm
(some dialogue paraphrased for the sake of clarity).
2
Abraham Lincoln, “Short Autobiography—1859,” The History Place,
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/autobi-1.htm
.
3
McClure,
Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
.
4
Douglas L. Wilson, and Rodney O. Davis, eds., “Joseph C. Richardson (William H. Herndon Interview)” in
Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998),
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.6753:1.lincoln
.
5
McClure,
Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
.
6
Lincoln, “Short Autobiography—1859.”
7
Clifton Fadiman and Andre Bernard,
Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes
(New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2000), 344.
8
McClure,
Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
.
9
Ibid.
10
Ibid.
11
Lincoln, “Short Autobiography—1859.”
12
Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer,
Lincoln on Democracy
(New York: Fordham University Press,), 105–6.
13
Fadiman and Bernard,
Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes
, 345.
14
Ibid., 347.
15
McClure,
Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
.
16
Ibid.
17
Ibid.
18
Fadiman and Bernard,
Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes
, 349; McClure,
Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories
.
19
Nancy F. Koehn, “Lincoln’s School of Management,”
New York Times
, January 26, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/business/abraham-lincoln-as-management-guru.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
.
CKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Special thanks to Alex Martins, Dan DeVos, and Rich DeVos of the Orlando Magic.
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Thanks also to my writing partner, Jim Denney, for his superb contributions in shaping this manuscript.
Hearty thanks also go to Annie Tipton, Paul Muckley, David G. Applin, and the entire Barbour team for their vision and insight, and for believing that we had something important to say in these pages.
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