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Leadership and Improvisation: A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey

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  • Norman W. Provizer

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In search of new rules for ‘managing the world’ in the twenty-first century, writer Robert Kaplan visited Fort Bragg—the North Carolina home of the United States Army’s Special Operations Command. At Fort Bragg, Kaplan asks Major Paul Warren about the model for civil affairs officers in Special Operations. ‘Read John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano,’ the major replies, ‘it’s all there.’ It’s all there, of course, in the person of Major Victor Joppolo, the novel’s senior civil affairs officer assigned to the newly ‘liberated’ Italian town of Adano during the ending phase of the Second World War. And it is from this character that Kaplan draws his first rule for America concerning the management of an untidy world: ‘Produce More Joppolos’ (2003, Page 69).

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  • Norman W. Provizer, 2013. "Leadership and Improvisation: A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Fictional Leaders, chapter 7, pages 113-124, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-27275-1_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137272751_8
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