Leaders with Character, Chivalry and Couage (Balls) - Relics of the Past?

Question

Is it possible to be a person of the highest character, chivalrous and honorable, retaining your humanity while fighting for the very survival of your civilization? To be a person that has the guts to stand up to a "Stand and Die" order? And if so, can people like this exist (succeed) today?

Putrid Pecksniffs

Can people with all too human flaws – however borne up on the wings of honor, duty, compassion, justice and noble vision – even make it today? Could any one mortal withstand all the nit-picking, slime-slinging, self-aggrandizing, ignoble putrid Pecksniffs which can crucify the less-than-perfect?

Leaders with Character, Chivalry and Couage (Balls) - Relics of the Past? is an exploration of leadership, courage, chivalry and character with Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel. Steven is a master storyteller. His works, such as The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great, and The Afghan Campaign, and many others are legendary among military aficionados. His book, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, is required reading at West Point.

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