Derek Leebaert is a partner at effectivRAI[1] and an author of books on history and politics. He won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation.[2]
Leebaert published Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made which was a Wall Street Journal "Best Book of 2023" and "recommended reading" from McKinsey. Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith praises it as "having done the near impossible--craft[ing] a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle. . . .A book to regard in the same breath as the classics of Sherwood, Schlesinger, and Burns." The Guardian reviewed it as "masterful."
Writings
To Dare and to Conquer was a Washington Post Book World "Nonfiction Best Book" of 2006,[3]. His book, Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan, in 2010 warns that much of US foreign policy is based on ignorance of that country's history and culture.[4] His previous book, Grand Improvisation (2018) was a New York Times "Best Book," and reviews are found in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Times (London), et al. Leebaert also co-authored the MIT Press trilogy on the IT revolution, including The Future of the Electronic Marketplace and The Future of Software. .[5]
Life
In 1977 Leebaert was a research fellow at Harvard University and managing editor of International Security journal.[6] He taught in the government and business school departments at Georgetown University.[7]
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