Perspectives on presidential leadership : an international view of the White House / edited by Michael Patrick Cullinane and Clare Frances Elliott.

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ISBN
9781135079109 (electronic bk.)
1135079102 (electronic bk.)
9781135079031 (electronic bk.)
113507903X (electronic bk.)
1306460212 (ebk)
9781306460217 (ebk)
9780203796504 (e-book ; PDF)
0203796500 (e-book ; PDF)
9781135079178 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
113507917X (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
9780415857703
0415857708 (hardback)
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İngilizce
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (256 pages)
Dizi
Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance ; 15
İçindekiler Notu
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributor Biographies; Preface; Introduction: Rating America's Presidents: A UK Perspective; 1 The Meanings of Going First: George Washington and the Presidency; 2 John Quincy Adams: An Exceptionally Average President?; 3 A Poetic Presidency: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and the Second American Revolution; 4 Andrew Johnson: The Wrong Man in the Wrong Place; 5 A (Near) Great President: Theodore Roosevelt as the First Modern President; 6 Reevaluating the Presidency of Warren G. Harding; 7 Simply the Best: FDR as America's Number One President.
8 King's Last President: A Canadian Prime Minister's Perspective on Harry S. Truman's First Term9 LBJ: If Not for Vietnam; 10 The Reagan Presidency in Retrospect: An Assessment of Reagan's Legacy; 11 George H.W. Bush and Presidential Peacemaking in Ranking American Presidents; 12 President Bill Clinton: Ranking, Reputation, and Legacy; 13 An Obama Doctrine?; Index; Acknowledgements.
Özet, vb.
In 2011 Barack Obama invited ten distinguished biographers to the White House to ask them one question: which past American president should I emulate? This was not the first time Obama asked scholars this, but the answer he received would differ as presidential legacies waxed and waned. In 2008 Obama chose Lincoln; in 2009, Reagan; and in 2010, Theodore Roosevelt. Perspectives on Presidential Leadership is an examination of presidential legacy, and in particular an analysis of the first ever UK ranking of American presidents which took place in 2011. In thirteen chapters, thi.
Konu
Presidents __ United States __ History __ Case studies.
Presidents __ Rating of __ United States.
Political leadership __ United States __ Case studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE __ Public Affairs & Administration. __ bisacsh
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General __ bisacsh
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch __ bisacsh
HISTORY / United States / General __ bisacsh
Diğer Yazarlar
Cullinane, Michael Patrick, 1979-
Elliott, Clare Frances.
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