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Page 55,
“leading by listening”
:
Ibid.
Page 55,
“He possessed a nearly preternatural ability to remain silent⦔
:
Ibid., 193â94.
Page 56,
“When dinner was over, we visited the General's stables⦔
:
Valley Forge Historical
Society,
The Picket Post: A Record of Patriotism,
vol. 37 (Valley Forge, PA: Valley Forge Historical Society, 1960), 19.
Page 57,
“while calmly sitting astride his horse ⦔
:
Ellis,
His Excellency,
120.
Page 57,
“Will, the huntsman, better known⦔
:
George Washington Parke Custis,
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington
(New York: Derby and Jackson, 1860), 387.
Page 58,
“Treat them with humanity⦔
:
While I cannot find the original historic record of these orders, this quote appears in many books, articles, and speeches, including the September 28, 2006,
Congressional Record, Senate,
vol. 152, pt. 15, p. 146.
Page 59,
To encourage them, he “marched the prisoners ⦔
:
James Parrish Hodges,
Beyond the Cherry Tree: The Leadership Wisdom of George Washington
(N.p.: Great Leaders Press, 2008), 45.
Page 59,
“We were fighting for the rights of ordinary people”
:
Hodges, interview by author.
Page 59,
“about 40 percent of the Hessians ⦔
:
Ibid.
Page 59,
“In 1778, Colonel Charles Stuart wrote
:
David Hackett Fischer,
Washington's Crossing
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 376â77.
Page 59,
“In the end, our founding fathers not only protected⦔
:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “America's Anti-torture Tradition,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 17, 2005 (available online at
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/17/opinion/oe-kennedy17)
.
Page 61,
“She awed me in the midst of her kindness ⦔
:
George Washington Parke Custis,
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington
(New York: Derby and Jackson, 1860), 131.
Page 63,
“The experiment ended with the death⦔
:
Marion Harland,
The Story of Mary Washington
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893), 72.
Page 63,
he admitted the facts “promptly and squarely⦔
:
Ibid., 73.
Page 65,
“Thou art not yet dead, my father”
:
Joseph J. Ellis,
His Excellency: George Washington
(New York: Vintage, 2005), 14.
Page 66,
“Seeing the decay of public virtue everywhere ⦔
:
Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin, 2010), 329.
Page 66,
Chernow finds it “astonishing⦔
:
Ibid., 326â27.
Page 66,
“projected leadership in nonverbal ways ⦔
:
Ibid., 326.
Page 67,
“I see their situation,
know
their danger⦔:
George Washington,
The Writings of George Washington,
collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, vol. 1 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889), 249â50.
Page 68,
“He pined for her presence”
:
Chernow,
Washington,
330.
Page 69,
“I never knew him to be so anxious⦔
:
Ibid.
Page 69,
“Not enough historians have recognized⦔
:
Thomas Fleming,
Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
(New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2005), 184.
Page 69,
“She well deserved to be the companion⦔
:
Chernow,
Washington,
330.
Page 70,
“evidence of her business acumen⦔
:
“Martha Dandridge Custis Washington,” undated, National First Ladies' Library,
www.firstladies.org
.
Page 70,
“With her extremely large inheritance ⦔
:
Ibid.
Page 70,
“I never in my life knew a woman so busy⦔
:
Chernow,
Washington,
330, citing a quote reported in Harlow Giles Unger,
The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006), 122.
Page 71,
she was a “modest and respectable person⦔
:
Chernow,
Washington,
295.
Page 71,
“especially in the early stages of the war⦔
:
Ellis,
His Excellency,
74.
Page 71,
he “never walled himself off from contrary opinion⦔
:
Chernow,
Washington,
306.
Page 71,
“the halt, in immobility, contains the energy⦔
:
Sherry Ackerman,
Dressage in the Fourth Dimension
(Novato, CA: New World Library, 2008), 10.
Page 72,
“Impulsion is a power surge ⦔
:
Ron Meredith, “Training Mythunderstandings: The Training Tree: Impulsion,” undated, Meredith Manor International Equestrian Centre website,
www.meredithmanor.edu/features/articles/drm/impulsion.asp
.
Page 73,
“Young dominator stallions ⦔
:
Kip Mistral, “The Secret Life of Stallions,”
Horse Connection
(February 2006): 32.
Page 74,
“We even have foals here ⦔
:
Ibid., 33.
Page 76,
This horse is “extremely dependable and confident⦔
:
Mark Rashid,
Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership
(Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2000), xiii.
Page 76,
Rashid once watched an alpha horse
:
Ibid., 37.
Page 76,
“In almost every case,” he writes
:
Ibid.
Page 76,
Watching one such mare effortlessly lead
:
Ibid., 35.
Page 76,
Most horses, Rashid insists, seek out a leader
:
Ibid., xiv.
Page 77,
“survival of the kindest”
:
Marc Ian Barasch,
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness
(Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2005), 35.
Page 78,
“a cultural swing toward pacifism⦔
:
Natalie Angier, “No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture,”
New York Times,
April 13, 2004,
www.nytimes.com
.
Page 78,
“if bonobos instead of chimps had been taken⦔
:
Barasch,
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life,
34â35.
Page 78,
“Let your
heart
feel for the affliction⦔
:
William J. Bennett, ed.,
Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 162.
Page 82,
“I was a terrible kid ⦔
:
Sam Powell, with Lane Carter,
Almost a Whisper: A Holistic Approach to Working with Your Horse
(Loveland, CO: Alpine Publications, 1999), 31.
Page 84,
“the delicacy of touch and feeling of a woman⦔
:
Quoted in Robert M. Miller and Rick Lamb,
The Revolution in Horsemanship and What It Means to Mankind
(Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005), 81.
Page 85,
“If this has been fortuitous for the equine industry⦔
:
Ibid., 80, 81.
Page 85,
“both masculine and feminine traits are needed⦔
:
Ibid., 81.
Page 87,
“Washington's tenure as commander in chief ⦔
:
Ron Chernow,
Washington: A Life
(New York: Penguin, 2010), 286â87, emphasis mine.
Page 88,
“There is a hundred times more enthusiasm⦔
:
Joseph J. Ellis,
His Excellency: George Washington
(New York: Vintage, 2005), 101.
Page 88,
“less out of conviction than a realistic recognition⦔
:
Ibid., 100â101.
Page 89,
“Congress was apparently taken aback⦔
:
Ibid., 101.
Page 89,
“guerilla and terrorist strategies of the twentieth century”
:
Ibid.
Page 90,
“The rich warriors on the gleaming red animals⦔
:
Renate Rolle,
The World of the Scythians,
translated from the German by F. G. Walls (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 109.
Page 91,
“which until then had led an effective and long-standing⦔
:
Neal Ascherson,
Black Sea
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1995), 81.
Page 93,
“Oliver Cromwell had not surrendered power⦔
:
Ellis,
His Excellency,
139.
Page 94,
“I learned a lot from horses ⦔
:
“A Look at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Career,” interview by Guy Raz, National Public Radio, January 8, 2011,
www.npr.org/2011/01/08/132769563/A-Look-At-Rep-Gabrielle-Giffords-Career
.
Page 96,
“I know there are still barriers and biases ⦔
:
Anne E. Kornblut, “Clinton's Last Hurrah,”
Washington Post,
June 7, 2008,
www.washingtonpost.com
.
Page 97,
“Our party and our country are stronger⦔
:
Ibid.
Page 97,
“The higher you go⦔
:
Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter,
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful!
(New York: Hyperion, 2007), 42.
Page 97,
“from needlessly trying to be the alpha ⦔
:
Ibid., 46.
Page 97,
“the need to win at all costs ⦔
:
Ibid., 40.
Page 97,
our “obsession with winning rears its noisome head⦔
:
Ibid., 46.
Page 102,
“The Enron traders never seemed to step back⦔: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
(New York: Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2005), DVD.
Page 102,
those traders and executives “who stayed and thrived⦔
:
Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind,
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
(New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2003), 121.
Page 102,
“no company can prosper over the long term if ⦔
:
Ibid., 56.
Page 103,
“I failed to find â although I was eagerly looking⦔
:
Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin,
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution,
1st ed. (London: William Heinemann, 1902), vii, emphasis the author's.
Page 103,
he “could agree with none of the works ⦔
:
Ibid., ix, x.
Page 104,
When “animals have to struggle against scarcity⦔
:
Ibid., ix.
Page 104,
“All that natural selection can do⦔
:
Ibid., 73.
Page 105,
“followed by a third, a fourth, ⦔
:
Ibid., 20.
Page 105,
“In the Russian Steppes, [wolves] ⦔
:
Ibid., 41.
Page 105,
“the first thing which strikes us is ⦔
:
Ibid., 38â40.
Page 106,
“the top-down models of communism's ⦔
:
Geoff Olson, “Kropotkin vs. Darwin: Cooperation as an Evolutionary Force,”
Common Ground
(September 2005): 3,
www.commonground.ca
.
Page 106,
“A particular essay by âDarwin's bulldog,'⦔
:
Ibid., 4, emphasis mine.
Page 107,
“It's undeniable,” Olson concludes
:
Ibid., 5.
Page 107,
“[If we] ask Nature: âWho are the fittest â¦' ”
:
Kropotkin,
Mutual Aid,
6.
Page 107,
“enables the feeblest of insects ⦔
:
Ibid., 57.
Page 110,
“Now Abel kept flocks ⦔
:
Genesis 4:3â7.
Page 111,
“I don't know,” Cain replies
:
Genesis 4:9, 10, 12.
Page 111,
“the father of those who live in tents ⦔
:
Genesis 4:20â22.
Page 113,
“Semitic peoples have called wilderness âGod's land,'⦔
:
Jim Corbett,
Goatwalking: A Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom
(New York: Penguin, 1991), 83.
Page 114,
“Settled people,” Corbett observes, “work relentlessly⦔
:
Ibid., 84, 25.
Page 116,
“not a single domestic animal can be named⦔
:
Charles Darwin,
The Origin of Species
(1872; reprint, Charleston, SC: Forgotten Books, 2007), 8.
Page 117,
“Several of our domesticated foxes have escaped⦔
:
Lyudmila Trut, “Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment,”
American Scientist
87, no. 2 (MarchâApril 1999): 2,
www.americanscientist.org
.
Page 118,
“the domestic fox is not a domestic dog ⦔
:
Ibid., 4.