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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #81 - The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Leadership Lessons From The Great Books
Leadership Lessons From The Great Books
Episode • Nov 1, 2023 • 1h 5m

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
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  • Welcome and Introduction
  • The Literary Life of James Fenimore Cooper 
  • Literary Romanticism and Its Impact
  • “Their Manners are Decorous and Praiseworthy.”
  • Portrayals of the Indigenous People in The Last of the Mohicans
  • Cooper Doesn't Need Rehabilitating
  • Hand-to-Hand Leadership
  • Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas
  • Needing A "Fixer" When You Don't Know the Geography
  • The Enemy of My Enemy Can Be Manipulated to Serve My Ends
  • Guerrilla Warfare in North America
  • The Seven Years' War and Its Colonial Discontents
  • Comparisons to Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • Staying on the Path

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