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Title: Power and the Presidency by Robert A. Wilson, Michael R. Beschloss, Edmund Morris, Stanley Marcus, Benjamin C. Bradlee, Robert A. Caro, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Maraniss, David McCullough ISBN: 1-891620-43-6 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good things in small packages
Comment: This is a POWERFUL book. A good, quick read from some of our premier modern-day American historians. This collection of essays gives us an inside look at most of the presidencies of the second half of the 20th century. A must read for any history buff.
Rating: 5
Summary: Experts discuss the use of power by U.S. presidents
Comment: Edmund Morris - Last fall, Morris published the controversial biography Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. His book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
Ben Bradlee - Author of That Special Grace, a tribute to John F. Kennedy, Bradlee is a vice president at the Washington Post. He previously was the executive editor at the Post who oversaw reporting of the Watergate scandal.
David Maraniss - A reporter at the Washington Post since 1977, Maraniss earned a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his coverage of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. He subsequently wrote the Clinton biography, First in his Class. His latest book is When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi.
The "Power and the Presidency" series was created on behalf of the Montgomery Endowment by alumnus Robert A. Wilson of Dallas, a communications consultant who put together a similar series, "Character Above All" (dealing with the impact of character on presidential leadership) in 1994 at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rating: 5
Summary: A little gem of a book, Indeed!
Comment: These well written essays provide vivid glimpses of varying Presidential personalities, with thoughtful discussion of individual strengths and weaknesses. To me, especially in an election year where character is a major issue, it was an enthralling read, with highlights of qualities such as "Reagan's voice, which was a large part of Reagan's power..." or the speaking style of TR, with plosive P sounds, which "would pop with Gatling-gun force. The effect of his oratory was to bury every word in the psyche of his listeners." or the political genius exhibited by FDR who talked "at a level at which very few people could follow him and understand what he was really saying" that FDR also recognized in a young congressmen, LBJ, as "he saw Johnson understood _everything_ he was talking about." I enjoyed reading these examples of behavior and the illuminating contrasts such as: "It is hard to imagine two more different men than Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy..." or "despite the major differences in their temperaments--indeed, I would argue, because of these differences--Eleanor and Franklin forged their historic partnership..." I would recommend to readers the book "Presidential Temperament" by Choiniere and Keirsey, another well researched volume which gives an explanation of "how each President's temperament inevitably expressed itself in his behavior, both in office and in his personal life."
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Title: Character Above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bush by Robert A. Wilson ISBN: 0684814110 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency: Seventy-Six Case Studies in Presidential Leadership by David M. Abshire ISBN: 0275973522 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND THE MODERN PRESIDENTS : THE POLITICS OF LEADERSHIP FROM ROOSEVELT TO REAGAN by Richard E. Neustadt ISBN: 0029227968 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Party of the People : A History of the Democrats by JULES WITCOVER ISBN: 0375507426 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. by Fred I. Greenstein ISBN: 0691090831 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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