Leading Change in Public Organizations

• Author: Douglas A. Brook
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12667
• Published date: 01 November 2016
• Date: 01 November 2016

Book Reviews 977

Danny L. Balfour and Stephanie P. Newbold , Editors

Douglas A. Brook

Duke University

Leading Change in Public Organizations

Robert M. Gates , A Passion for Leadership: Lessons

on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public

Service (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). 239 pp.

$27.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780307959492;

$13.99 (e-Book), ISBN: 9780307959508 .

Ultimate Insider ’ s Story of Five Presidents and How

They Won the Cold War , first published in 1996

and re-issued in 2007 (Gates 2007 ), chronicles his

15 years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Twenty years old, it is still worth reading for its

look inside the CIA, history of U.S. foreign policy

toward Russia, and Gates’s not-always-smooth career

progression though the agency. The second, Duty:

Memoirs of a Secretary at War , published in 2015,

Douglas A. Brook is visiting professor

of practice in the Sanford School of Public

Policy at Duke University and emeritus

professor of public policy at the Naval

Postgraduate School. He has served as

assistant secretary of the Army (Financial

Management) and under Robert Gates as

assistant secretary of the Navy (Financial

Management and Comptroller) and acting

under secretary of defense (Comptroller).

E-mail: doug.brook@duke.edu

R obert M. Gates, one of the country ’ s most

respected public servants, has written three

books. The first, From the Shadows: The