The Presidential Difference : : Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third Edition / / Fred I. Greenstein.
Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's fir...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 13 halftones. 1 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. The Presidential Difference
- 2. The Virtuosic Leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 3. The Uneven Leadership of Harry S. Truman
- 4. The Unexpected Eisenhower
- 5. Coming to Terms with Kennedy
- 6. Lyndon B. Johnson and the Primacy of Politics
- 7. The Paradox of Richard Nixon
- 8. The Instructive Presidency of Gerald Ford
- 9. Jimmy Carter and the Politics of Rectitude
- 10. Ronald Reagan: The Innocent as Agent of Change
- 11. The Highly Tactical Leadership of George H. W. Bush
- 12. The Undisciplined Bill Clinton
- 13. George W. Bush and the Politics of Agenda Control
- 14. The Presidential Breakthrough of Barack Obama
- 15. Lessons from the Modern Presidency
- Appendix: Background on the Modern Presidency
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index