Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders

Reading Level
Grade 10
Time to Read
10 hrs 13 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders is 9th and 10th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 9
SMOG Index Grade 11
Coleman Liau Index Grade 10
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 6

Reading Time

10 hrs 13 mins

How long to read Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders?

The estimated word count of Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders is 153,140 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 10 hrs 13 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 17 hrs 1 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 41 mins.

Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders - 153,140 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 17 hrs 1 mins
Average 250 words/min 10 hrs 13 mins
Fast 450 words/min 5 hrs 41 mins
Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders by Nancy Koehn
Authors
Nancy Koehn

More about Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders

153,140 words

Word Count

for Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders

16 hours and 28 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

This “engaging, unusually rewarding book…[which] will foster a new appreciation for effective leadership and prompt many readers to lament the lack of it in the world today” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), by celebrated Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, examines five masters of crisis: explorer Ernest Shackleton; Abraham Lincoln; abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In her “enthralling…fascinating look at a varied group of heroes” (Publishers Weekly), Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable template by which to measure our aspirations and, also, to judge those in our time to whom we've given our trust. Featuring “five stand-alone case studies that are well-written and interesting” (The New York Times), Koehn begins each section by showing her protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith; Carson racing against the cancer ravaging her in a bid to save the planet. Readers then learn about each person’s childhood and see the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential truth: leaders are not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power and courage to lead resides in each of us. Providing both great insight and exceptionally rendered human drama, Forged in Crisis is “a highly engaging (and well documented)…book that quietly surpasses many so-called leadership tomes” (Booklist, starred review).