Index of leaders and leadership contexts


Adeimantus of Collytus 3, 10

Agincourt, battle of 58

Akbar, Hasan 118

Al-Assad, Bashar 156

Alexander the Great 2, 18

Aljazeera 93

Al-Qaeda 93

America, United States of 13, 15, 39, 41, 55, 57, 65, 67, 81, 84, 96, 101, 110, 113, 117, 123, 139, 141144, 147151, 153154, 156, 159162, 166, 171172, 176, 177, 181, 209211, 220222

Americanism 96, 141, 151, 159162

Apartheid (in South Africa) 89, 104, 152, 163

Arafat, Yasser 83

Argus, Don 24

Aristotle xxi, 163

Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal 65

Attila the Hun 11, 109


Baird, John 186187

Balkan conflict 191192

Bannockburn battle 161, 177, 186

Bay of Pigs invasion 200

BBC Prison Study 74, 189, 190, 193, 202203, 206, 213

Bennett, William 166

Berg, Tony 25

Biko, Steve 30

bin Laden, Osama 11, 9394

Bismarck towers 185

Bismarck, Otto von 6, 185186

Black People’s Convention 30

Bligh, Captain William 166169

Bonaparte, Napoleon 83

Bonnymuir battle 186

Booth, Anna 24

Bounty (ship), muntiny on 166167

British Empire 23

Brittas Empire, The (TV show) 220

Burns, Robert 159, 177

Bush, George H. W. 156157

Bush, George W. 13, 39, 8384, 139142, 147, 156, 221

Bushisms 13, 141


Ceausescu, Nicolae 48

Charlesworth, Ric 80, 220

Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) xiii, 1112, 16, 25, 122124, 127

Christians/Christ-followers xvi, 193194

Churchill, Winston 18, 2324, 82, 147, 171172, 214, 222

Cicero 172

Cincinnatus 209210

Civil Rights Movement, US (1955–1968) 57, 131, 162, 172173, 210

Civil War, US (1861–1865) 160

Clemenceau, Georges 184

Clinton, Bill 113

Clinton, Hilary 6869, 148

Codreanu, Corneliu 173, 177

Cold War 220

Commandos, 11,

see also Marcinko, Richard

Communist Manifesto 94

Congress (US) 151

Conservative Party (UK) 153154, 157, 159, 178, 208

Cook, Captain James 166

Cuban missile crisis 200


Darman, Richard 147

Darwin, Charles 204

de Gaulle, Charles 60

Demosthenes 160

“Direct Action” campaign 153

Dunkirk battle 214


egalitarianism 98, 159

elections 1314, 19, 6668, 8283, 96, 105, 141, 147149, 151, 157159, 161, 177

elite 15, 43, 141, 147148, 184, 186, 193

Elizabeth I, Queen of England 83, 109, 170

Elizabeth, Queen Mother 138, 142

Engels, Friedrich 94

English Premier League, see Manchester United and Liverpool (football club)

European Football Championship (2004) 9293


Fairbairn, Nicholas 154

Faisal I of Iraq 184

Faraday, Michael 204

FDR, see Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Fletcher, Christian 166

Foot, Michael 138142

football crowds 47, 49, 59, 64, 66, 9193, 118, 219

football fans 19, 4647, 59, 89, 9293, 219

French Revolution (1789–1799) 19, 183, 216, 221222

Führer, see Hitler, Adolf

Führerprinzip 180


Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 203, 216, 222

Garibaldi, Giuseppe 65

Genghis Khan 1011, 109

George III, King of England 169, 201, 222

Gettysburg Address (Lincoln) 160161, 162, 210

Goebbels, Joseph 7, 155, 218

Goethals, George Washington 110, 221

Golden Speech (Elizabeth I) 109, 170

Gorbachev, Mikhail 114

Gore, Al 83, 84

Graham, Billy 11

Guantanamo Bay 93

Gulf War, First (1990–1991) 156157

Gulf War, Second (2003), see Iraq War


Haile Selassie 83

Hardie, Andrew 186187

Harding, Warren 96, 162, 220

Hawking, Stephen 96

Henry V (play) 2728, 5859

Henry V, King of England 28, 58

Hindu–Muslim conflict 153, 191

Hitler, Adolf 67, 2324, 94, 179181, 187188, 198, 203, 215216, 218

hoi polloi (the many) 15

hooligans, 92, 93,

see also football fans

Hussein, Saddam 11, 84, 156157


Iqbal, Muhammed 153

“I have a dream” speech (Martin Luther King) 162, 210

Iraq War (2003) 84, 94, 118, 139, 142


Jackson, Andrew 148

Jesus Christ xvi, 1012, 131, 194

JFK, see Kennedy, John F.

Jinnah, Muhammad Ali 65, 152153

Joan of Arc 83

Johnson, Lyndon 175

Julius Caesar 2, 18


Kennedy, John F. 37, 57, 149151, 153, 171172, 175178, 200, 209, 222

Kerry, John 118, 141

King, Martin Luther Jr. 32, 57, 131, 162, 210

Kinnock, Neil 208209

Kosciuszko, Tadeusz 181182


Labour Party (UK) 138, 142, 157, 159160, 208

Lautenberg, Frank 142

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre 216

Lincoln, Abraham 2, 131, 139, 140, 160161, 172178, 200, 210

Liverpool (football club) 59

Louis XIV, King of France 167169, 201

Louis XV, King of France 168169

Louis XVI, King of France, 167169, 201

Lwow Exposition 181183


Macbeth of Scotland 63

Macbeth (play) 63

Machiavelli, Niccolo 33, 37, 215

Mackay, James (Lord Mackay of Clashfern) 157158

Macmillan, Harold 213, 222

Major, John 208

Malcolm X 172173

Manchester United 59

Mandela, Nelson 32, 89, 104, 152153, 163, 203

Marcinko, Richard 1112, 98

Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 169

McCarthy, Senator Joe 191

McCarthyism 191

Meer, Fatima 152153

Mein Kampf 198

Members of Parliament (MPs) 138, 153154, 186

Menendez, Robert 142

Middle East 156, 184185, 191, 193, 220

Milgram’s “obedience” experiments 210211

military contexts xiv, xxiv, 68, 18, 23, 2728, 48, 54, 58, 60, 82, 84, 91, 9394, 118119, 138140, 142, 146, 150151, 156, 160161, 167, 174175, 181182, 184186, 191, 208209, 214, 220222

Milosevic, Slobodan 191

monarchs, as leaders 18, 2728, 5859, 83, 109, 138, 142, 167170, 184186, 200201, 219, 221222

Mondale, Walter 147, 160

Mother Theresa 11

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 204

Mussolini, Benito 6


Nazism (National Socialism) 6, 23, 94, 155156, 179, 180181, 186187, 214, 218219

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 166

Nixon, Richard 151, 219220

Nixon–Kennedy debates 151

Nuremberg rallies 179, 187, 218


Obama, Barack 13, 15, 19, 39, 6869, 148, 175

Office, The (TV show) 220

Olympic Games 132, 220

Othello (play) 211


Pakistan 152153

Palestinian–Israeli peace process 191

Parlement (in Paris) 168

parliament (in London) 91, 109, 153154, 170, 186

Parliament, Scottish (in Edinburgh) 157, 186, 187

Paul, Saint 4, 127, 131, 193195

Pericles 148

Peron, Eva 109

Pisistratus 148

Plato xiv, xvi, 3, 174

political contexts xxiv, 1, 2930, 33, 39, 44, 48, 5556, 60, 6771, 76, 8291, 105, 119120, 138, 140141, 144146, 148149, 151, 154, 157159, 161163, 170, 172, 177185, 191, 198, 202, 209, 215217

Powell, Colin 11, 14, 84, 220

Powell, Enoch 215

Prince, The (political treatise) 33


Raclawice Panorama 181183

Rahmat Ali, Choudhary 153

Reagan, Ronald 147148, 160, 166

Redwood, John 208

Robbers Cave xiii, 8081

Robert I, King of Scotland (Robert the Bruce) 186

Rodriguez, Richard 19

Romanian Revolution (1989) 48

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 23, 149, 150, 151

Rumsfeld, Donald 84

Russian Revolution (1917) 166, 189


Salmond, Alex 158

Santa Claus 11, 204

Scotish National Party 157159, 161

Scotland 50, 63, 71, 92, 144, 154, 157161, 177178, 186187

Scottishness 66, 144, 157159, 186

Securitate 48

Serbian nationalism 191

Serbio-Croatian war, see Balkan conflict

Shakespeare, William 2728, 58, 63

Sharon, Ariel 220

Sillars, Jim 161

Socrates 34, 10, 174

Sorensen, Ted 151, 175, 176

South Africa 30, 89, 104, 152153, 163

Soviet Union 23, 114

sport 1, 8, 29, 65, 132

sporting teams 19, 44, 4647, 49, 5254, 5759, 64, 66, 89, 119, 120

Stalin, Joseph 23

Stanford Prison Experiment 22, 74

superman 4, 7, 21, 202

Syria 156, 184185, 193


Thatcher, Margaret 159, 208209

Trotsky, Leon 166, 188189

Tutu, Desmond 89, 163


Übermensch, see superman

Uncle Sam, 160,

see also Cold War

United States, see America, United States of


Vancouver, Captain George 166

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom 83

Vietnam war 140


Walker, Bill 153154

Wallace, William 186187

war xiv, 68, 23, 48, 84, 91, 9394, 118119, 138140, 142, 150151, 156157, 160, 167, 174175, 181, 184186, 191, 208, 214, 222

“war on terror” 91, 9394

Washington, George 98, 101, 113, 210

Wayne, John 22, 219

Webb, Jim 142

Welch, Jack 11

Wilberforce, William 200

Wilson, James 186

World Cup 92

World Trade Center, NY 93

World War I 48, 184185

World War II 68, 23, 150, 208


Yom Kippur War 22