#196 Andrew Roberts - Leadership Lessons from Those Who Made History

Andrew Roberts is a Bestselling author, historian and journalist. He is a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and also has positions at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Lehrman Institute at the New York Historical Society.

On this episode Andrew discusses some of the great leaders he’s written about such as Winston Churchill and Napoleon Bonaparte, how he transitioned from a career in finance to become one of the great writers of history, and what it takes to produce great work!

Episode Outline:

3:00 – Start of Roberts’ interest in great leaders

4:45 – Making his career shift

9:30 – Learning curve while writing his first book

12:20 – Handling criticism

16:45 – The story behind writing “Churchill: Walking with Destiny”

22:45 – Mentors in Roberts’ writing career

27:45 – Roberts’ research process

33:00 – Traveling to battlefields for his research on Napoleon Bonaparte

37:15 – The importance of chronology in his writing

41:50 – What surprised Roberts while writing “Churchill: Walking with Destiny”

43:40 – Bonaparte’s take on his own destiny

47:00 – Great leaders study other great leaders

53:10 – Trends Roberts has found interesting throughout his research and writing

1:00:15 – Who Roberts sees as the most notable leaders

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Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Napoleon: A Life

Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

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