The President and His Inner Circle : : Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making / / Thomas Preston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Preston, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960, or if Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan had won the White House in 1980. Indeed, in recent elections, the character, prior policy experience, or...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Understanding the Mosaic of Presidential Personality and Leadership Styles
• 1. Presidential Personality and Leadership Style
• 2. Harry S. Truman and the Korean War
• 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu
• 4. John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
• 5. Lyndon Johnson and the Partial Bombing Halt in Vietnam, 1967-1968
• 6. George Bush and the Gulf War
• 7. "A Bridge to the Twenty-first Century": The Leadership Style of Bill Clinton
• 8. Presidential Personality and the Grand Mosaic of Leadership
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Backmatter