Leadership and the Labour Party

John Gaffney isProfessor of Politics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK and Co-Director ofthe Aston Centre for Europe.

• Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations.- Listof Figures.- 1.Political Leadership, Rhetoric and Culture: Aristotle Good, MaxWeber Bad.- 2.Leadership Lessons from the Past.- 3.The Arc of Rhetoric and theLeader as Author.- 4.Rhetoric and Performance: Miliband’s Finest Hour(sixty-four minutes and forty seven seconds, in fact).- 5.Narrative Collapseand the Teller Without a Tale.- 6.Conclusion: Narrative, Rhetoric and the‘Personalized Political’