The ascent of American academic geography -- Transformational leadership at Chicago : the post-Salisbury years -- Paradoxical leadership at Wisconsin -- Lackluster leadership at Michigan -- From tyranny to transformational leadership at Minnesota -- The struggle for distinction at Ohio State -- The transformational leadership of E. Willard Miller and Penn State geography -- George Cressey and Preston James at Syracuse -- The transactional leadership of Wallace Atwood and the emergence of geography at Clark -- Duplicity and deception at Johns Hopkins -- Laissez faire leadership at Harvard and geography's demise -- G. Donald Hudson's transformational leadership at Northwestern -- G. Donald Hudson's transformational leadership at Washington -- Iowa's rise to prominence -- Transformational leadership at UCLA -- The legacy of Carl Sauer : transformational leadership at Berkeley -- Leaders in a paradigm of eclectic pluralism -- Simonett and the Santa Barbarians -- The transformational leadership imperative.