Derek Leebaert

Derek Leebaert is an American technology executive who writes books on history and politics, which evoke insights on leadership. He won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for ''Grand Improvisation'', and he's a founder of the National Museum of the United States Army. He is also a director of the National Historical Society.

Leebaert's latest book is ''Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made''. It is a Wall Street Journal "Best Book of 2023" and "recommended reading" from McKinsey. Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith praises it as "having done the near impossible--craft[ing] a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle. . . .A book to regard in the same breath as the classics of Sherwood, Schlesinger, and Burns." The Guardian reviewed it as "masterful." Provided by Wikipedia