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Presidential power and the modern presidents : the politics of leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan / Richard E. Neustadt.

Title
Presidential power and the modern presidents : the politics of leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan / Richard E. Neustadt.
Author
Neustadt, Richard E.
Publication
New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan, c1990.

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Additional Authors
Neustadt, Richard E.
Description
xxvii, 371 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Neustadt presents a reexamination of his seminal theory of presidential power, and includes extensive material on Ronald Reagan. His understanding of the presidency is based on the belief that all presidential decisions influence the events they aim at and also impact the future possibilities of presidential power. Less interested in the presidency as an institution than as an office constructed by an individual, he focuses mainly on the personal exercise of power. He defines the office as one chiefly characterized by weakness. He believes that this is less the result of personal failure on the part of the President and more the product of a great gap between what is expected of a man and his assured capacity to carry through. ISBN 0-02-922795-X: $22.95.
Alternative Title
Politics of leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • Rev. ed. of: Presidential power. c1980.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-362) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Leader or clerk? -- Three cases of command -- The power to persuade -- Professional reputation -- Public prestige -- Two matters of choice -- Men in office -- The sixties come next -- Appraising a president -- Reappraising power -- Hazards of transition -- A matter of detail -- Two cases of self-help.
ISBN
  • 002922795X
  • 0029227968 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^90037725^//r922
OCLC
  • 21592272
  • SCSB-9951564
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library