Dr Adrienne M Harrison is currently a Fellow and Consulting Historian with Battlefield Leadership a consulting and training company specializing in providing customized experiential leadership training based in history A graduate of West Point she subsequently earned an MA and PhD in Early American History from Rutgers University Her work has been published in Oxford Bibliographies She discusses her book A Powerful Mind The SelfEducation of George Washington Dr Harrison spoke at a Ford Evening Book Talk at the Library on May 3 2016