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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press

ISBN-100826216234

ISBN-139780826216236

eBay Product ID (ePID)46971930

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

Publication NamePresidential Leadership : from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

SubjectPolitical Process / General, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / General, United States / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorRobert H. Ferrell

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2005-023511

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Presidential Leadership provides a sure-footed guide through the thickets of administrations from Wilson's to that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. . . . [It] provides us with the insights of a veteran scholar who has little patience with those interpretations that have become 'standard' through repetition rather than because of intellectual merit. An added bonus is that it is a pleasure to read."- Robert Maddox, author of Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision , " Presidential Leadership provides a sure-footed guide through the thickets of administrations from Wilson's to that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. . . . [It] provides us with the insights of a veteran scholar who has little patience with those interpretations that have become 'standard' through repetition rather than because of intellectual merit. An added bonus is that it is a pleasure to read."-- Robert Maddox, author of Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision , "These essays demonstrate very well the Ferrell technique, the ability to get inside the personality of key historical figures, to bring the event and the person to life with deft quotation and illuminating anecdote, and to tell stories with a beginning, middle, and end."- J. Garry Clifford, author of The Citizen Soldiers: The Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 19131920, "These essays demonstrate very well the Ferrell technique, the ability to get inside the personality of key historical figures, to bring the event and the person to life with deft quotation and illuminating anecdote, and to tell stories with a beginning, middle, and end."-- J. Garry Clifford, author of The Citizen Soldiers: The Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920, " Presidential Leadership provides a sure-footed guide through the thickets of administrations from Wilson's to that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. . . . [It] provides us with the insights of a veteran scholar who has little patience with those interpretations that have become 'standard' through repetition rather than because of intellectual merit. An added bonus is that it is a pleasure to read."-- Robert Maddox, author of Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal973.091/09/9

SynopsisEver since the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, scholars have been in a quandary over how much they really know about our country's presidents. Nixon, as is now understood, was unstable in personality. The signs appeared well before the discovery of the infamous Watergate tapes, an appalling example of what the presidency could come to. Many Americans have difficulty penetrating the public persona of their leaders. But to know the private side of such figures--the cores of their being--is important, because this side often governs what they do publicly. In Presidential Leadership , Robert H. Ferrell examines four sometimes maligned, sometimes misunderstood presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S. Truman. Along with these portraits, Ferrell incorporates comments on Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as well as key figures in each president's administration. Also included in this volume is historian John A. Garraty's interview with Ferrell on American foreign policy from 1919 to 1945. As is his style, Ferrell draws from many sources previously untapped. In the case of Wilson, Ferrell relies on the diary of Colonel Edward M. House, who served under Wilson during his presidency. Ferrell uses White House physician Joel T. Boone's diary to provide an insider's look at Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. In dealing with these presidents, Ferrell debunks long-held myths and approaches the presidencies with fresh insights into what drove them to make the decisions they made. Throughout the book, Ferrell emphasizes the personal styles of each president. He not only shows how they made their own determinations but also evaluates those whom they appointed to important positions. Scholars of American history will welcome this insightful look at the men who saw the United States through the first half of the twentieth century.

LC Classification NumberE176.1.F475 2005