Word: leader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connection to his constituents--they are a source of his staggering ambition. Jackson, according to one of his biographers, Marshall Frady, has spent most of his life with his childhood yapping at his heels, and he is driven by an insatiable need to be acknowledged and appreciated as a leader...
...Jackson] missed his calling. What Jesse should be is our business shakedown artist," says black leader Bruce Llewelyn, who is a former member of the Carter administration...
...There is the smack of the eager about him," Frady says. "He is one of the few people whose direct ambition has been to become the moral leader of his time. This position came to King haphazardly, almost by happenstance, but Jesse has gone right...
...according to some, Jackson's aggressiveness does not invalidate his leadership abilities. Dukakis says it is nave to fault a leader for courting press attention...
Frady claims that if it weren't for Jackson's registration of over three million voters, most of them black, America might have elected a very different brand of leader in the 1980s...