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He is familiar enough with history to say there are
four kinds of leaders around the world. There always have
been more or less four kinds, we'll say since 1776. We're
just limiting it to the modern industrialized society of
America more or less. From time to time different strains
of these people have been prominent. I will describe these
very quickly. It's not a progression. It's not one of
these things where we used to have them. You know, we learned
and now we've got it made. That's not the way it comes out.
You won't like any of them altogether probably, because
they're not altogether loveable.

From teh time, according to Maccoby, of the Revolutionary
War until shortly after the Civil WAr, the people that ran
America, the people taht were the prominent citizens, the
achievers, were known by his term of "craftsmen". The prototype
of the craftsman is Benjamin Franklin. We all know craftmen
now - Solzhenitsyn is a craftsman. There are many other
examples he shows. But a craftsman is a guy who's primarily
inner directed. He does not have to compete with somebody
to get self-satisfaction. If he competes, he competes with
himself. He is the salt of the earth type guy that's interested
in his family, he is interested in his self-discipline, he
is interested in his self-achievement, he is also a very
selfish person. He is kind of cranky and he is suspicious
of other people. He likes to control that part of the universe