
Presidential Personality And Performance
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2019
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-0-367-28421-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book, which examines the leadership styles and decisionmaking practices of presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton, reflects the authors interest for over half a century in the impact of personality on the political behavior of our political leaders. Its contents range from the story of the Georges collaboration on their pioneering stud
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-28421-3 (9780367284213)
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Persons
Alexander L. George is professor emeritus of international relations at Stanford University. His extensive writings have won many awards, including the Bancroft Prize for Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (1974), coauthored with Richard Smoke; a five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship; the 1997 National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War; and the 1998 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. From 1984 until her retirement in 1990, Juliette L. George was a senior scholar at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is a leading scholar on Woodrow Wilson.
Content
Foreword -- Introduction: An Overview -- The Psychoanalyst and the Biographer -- Some Uses of Dynamic Psychology in Political Biography: Case Materials on Woodrow Wilson -- Writing Psychobiography: Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Reply to Weinstein, Anderson, and Link -- Assessing Presidential Character -- Presidential Management Styles and Models