本书对国外历史上杰出领袖的生活、成长经历等进行了心理学层面的分析，涉及柏拉图、林肯、甘地、威尔逊、恺撒·威廉二世等，探索了这些领袖如何把他们个人的使命与神秘性投射到他人尤其是其民众身上，并因此满足甚至创造了他们的追随者们独特的需求。(The book analyzes the life and growing-up experience of the outstanding leaders in foreign history, involving Plato, Lincoln, Gandhi, Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, etc. from a psychological level, and explores how these leaders projected their personal mission and  mystique onto others, especially their people, thus satisfied and even created the unique needs of their followers.)