High Hopes : : Bill Clinton and the Politics of Ambition / / Stanley A Renshon.

The Clinton presidency is pivotal, occurring at a particularly sensitive time in American and world history. The Cold War has ended; yet Americans face daunting social and economic problems and are increasingly divided about how to address them. In this perceptive psychological portrait of Clinton a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1996]
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I. PRESIDENTS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE PUBLIC
  • CHAPTER 1 Public Psychology: The Legacy of History
  • PART II. THE CHARACTER OF BILL CLINTON
  • CHAPTER 2 Character and the Presidency
  • CHAPTER 3 Ambition
  • CHAPTER 4 Character Integrity
  • CHAPTER 5 Relatedness
  • CHAPTER 6 Character and Presidential Psychology
  • PART III. GROWING UP, COMING OF AGE
  • CHAPTER 7 His Mother's Son
  • CHAPTER 8 Adoration and Abandonment: The Clinton Family
  • CHAPTER 9 Some Consequences of Hope: A Tale of Two Women
  • CHAPTER 10 Vietnam and the Draft
  • CHAPTER 11 A Life's Choice: Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • PART IV. THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHARACTER
  • CHAPTER 12 Judgment and Leadership: The Core of Presidential Performance
  • CHAPTER 13 Clinton's Presidency
  • PART V. CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 14 Lost Opportunities: President Clinton's First Term
  • APPENDIX. Bill Clinton's Character and Presidency: A Note on Method
  • Notes
  • References
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index