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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books – Native Son: The Biography of a Young American by Richard Wright w/Tom Libby

Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #95 – Native Son: The Biography of a Young American by Richard Wright w/Tom Libby

00:00 Welcome and Introduction – Native Son: The Biography of a Young American by Richard Wright.
04:32 A Summary of Native Son – Book One: Fear.
12:25 Bigger Thomas Lives!
13:08 The Literary Life of Richard Wright.
16:30 Native Son‘s Plot was Ripped from the Headlines!
28:30 “I Forgive Political Marxists Pre-1950.”
30:00 Wright, Ellison, and the Racism of Marxists in the 1940s.
39:00 Leadership Lessons from Drug Dealers in Detroit.
42:11 Social Opportunities, Individual Agency and People in Poverty.
44:43 Tom Libby’s Tough Background.
55:06 The Foundation of Leadership Fear.
57:10 Leadership, DEI Officer Hires, and the DEI “Grift.”
1:04:30 Leadership Ownership in the Face of Corruption.
1:08:09 If You Get Injured, It’s Your Fault.
1:10:30 Bigger Sees the Blindness of Others.
1:21:39 An Analysis of Equalizer 3.
1:27:30 Leading People Who are Apolitical in Your Company.
1:34:51 Richard Wright was Connecting the Apolitical to the Political in Daily Worker.
01:38:51 Staying on the Leadership Path with Native Son: The Biography of a Young American by Richard Wright.
1:43:14 Three Questions About Art, Propaganda, and Content.

@00:24:30 I misspoke and said John Singletary and I meant John Singleton.

Opening theme composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.