Inventing the Job of President : : Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson / / Fred I. Greenstein.
From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United States is of the utmost importance. In th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter 1 The Presidential Difference in the Early Republic
- Chapter 2 The Foundational Presidency of George Washington
- Chapter 3 John Adams: Absentee Chief Executive
- Chapter 4 Thomas Jefferson and the Art of Governance
- Chapter 5 The Anticlimactic Presidency of James Madison
- Chapter 6 The Political Competence of James Monroe
- Chapter 7 The Political Incompetence of John Quincy Adams
- Chapter 8 Andrew Jackson: Force of Nature
- Chapter 9 Presidents, Leadership Qualities, and Political Development
- Appendix Background on the Early Presidencies
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index