An effective moral leader: remembering Robert Kennedy -- On Robert Kennedy and Shakespeare's Henry V -- Conrad's Typhoon -- Moral integration: four stories -- Eliciting the assent of the follower: Emerson's Representative Men -- Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in tandem: the moral leader of a moral leader -- Danilo Dolci, community organizer and writer: the leader as loner -- Handing each other along: moral leadership in everyday life -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: the will and moral transcendence -- The bond between leaders and followers: Erik Erikson, Gandhi, and Albert Jones, a Boston bus driver. -- High and low places: two presidents and American children

" ... Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership -- what it is, and how it is achieved -- through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others ..."