James MacGregor Burns was born August 3, 1918 in Melrose. He majored in political science at Williams University then went on to earn his PhD in government from Harvard. He is best known for being a presidential biographer, his work on executive and legislative branches of government, a leadership expert, and is currently working on politics for the Supreme Court. He has written over 20 books focusing on leadership and coined the term “transformational” leadership. He moved the idea of leadership from trait based to the idea of leader/follower relationships. He is a very important scholar and is best known for his 1978 book “Leadership,” as well as his second volume of “Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom," which won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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